From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELnxa-00021G-9d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:27:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j91KJQ06025461; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 20:19:26 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (range21-65.shlink.ch [217.148.7.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j91KHOae023073 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 20:17:24 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ELnrT-0002MV-24 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:21:35 +0200 Message-ID: <433EF0A8.6080700@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:25:12 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information References: <433EEF5B.1040102@stiefelweb.de> In-Reply-To: <433EEF5B.1040102@stiefelweb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4e199c00-5739-4bd0-a4fd-aeed609d9d27 X-Archives-Hash: 2c5fca05121e54cd2722a2a22db47b17 Hi, Daniel Stiefelmaier wrote: > In my opinion, the easiest way would be a wiki. Indeed. But why do you need to modify all the ebuilds? > 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) Wikis are very popular, but they aren't the solution to every problem in the world. If you want to contact the maintainer, write a mail, use IRC, or assign bugs to them, but why do we need another (communication) channel? It'd be great if you could animate people to concentrate useful information about a package in a certain place, but that's really not the job of an ebuild or portage. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead blubb@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list