[gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information

[Daniel Stiefelmaier <mail@stiefelweb.de>]

Hi!

I just opened this in gentoo-portage-dev, but Jason Stubbs told me my 
ideas are either bad or belong to THIS list, so i try my luck again...

I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of a 
ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell if 
you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or... whatever.
Jason stated:

Take the USE flag "perl", for example. It has the description "Adds 
support/bindings for the Perl language." but for mysql setting it enables the 
installation of some support scripts that just happen to be written in perl.


Another thing is, that i'd like to get some additional information on 
some ebuilds.
Like HOWTOs, known issues, configuration help, related ebuilds (not 
dependant but useful together)
In my opinion, the easiest way would be a wiki.
Ebuilds could contain an additional field "EBUILDNOTES" or the like, 
providing the URL.
An even more simple way would be to have portage tools (eix, emerge) 
print an automatically generated link like
http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Ebuild:www-client/mozilla-firefox
as mediawiki pages always have a discussion page attached, this could be 
used to get in touch with the maintainers of that package. (Only if they 
want that. This could be noted on the page)

thanks for reading and answering :)

Caliga
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