Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples

[Tuan Van <langthang@gentoo.org>]

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Paul de Vrieze wrote:

>On Saturday 21 August 2004 21:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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>>On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 16:46:15 -0300 Norberto Bensa
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>><norberto+gentoo-dev@bensa.ath.cx> wrote:
>>| And when you go to use.local.desc all you see is:
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>>|  cat/package:flag1 - enables flag1 compilation/support
>>|
>>| It doesn't say what flag1 is good for! So you end up Googleing,
>>| etc...
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>>You might want to file bugs for these... Updating use{,.local}.desc
>>doesn't take particularly long, and a good description can save users a
>>lot of time.
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>The problem is that many "even official global useflags" would sometimes 
>require package-level descriptions on their effect. Maybe this should be 
>put in the ebuild itself.
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>Paul
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I agree with you. I would like something as `configure --help` for 
example `emerge -useflag foo`, portage parse USE description from the 
ebuild and output something similar to `configure --help`.


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