Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> said:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:10:58 +0100
>
> Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > the idea is really great
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > now this needs to be [...] made mandatory for all ebuilds.
>
> Uh, what?
>
> Why? If the idea is that great, then why does it need to be mandatory?

This is one more way the maintainer can document the functionality of the 
ebuild. IMHO this documentation is so usefull that every ebuild should 
provide it.

see the recent blogpost by nichoj
http://technicalpickles.com/posts/pidgin-idle-time
which supports this reasoning.

regards
Thilo

>
>
> Kind regards,
>      JeR