Re: [gentoo-dev] Improved ebuild information

[Daniel Stiefelmaier <mail@stiefelweb.de>]

>We've discussed adding this to metadata.xml a few times in the past,
>but every time there was opposition from a vocal minority of one who
>claimed that USE flags should always do exactly the same thing for
>every package.
>  
>
why do minorities rule?
Actually i agree that in general use flags should have a consistent meaning.
But anyway, if "perl" adds support for perl, the user might want to know 
what it is good for in this package. or "plugins" could list the plugins 
that would be added.

What tool ever would display the use flags description, it could use 
those from
/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc by default, which may be overwriten in 
metadata.xml

greetings,
Caliga
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