From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5Bwa-0002pm-Hy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:05:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54A011C0CA; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3845F1C07D for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so1099093ywl.40 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:04:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=I2kqqP0fhxUnaZsELynkloI5PeyexmTw+fMnLpOQhnY=; b=UYeekQP9UVsPYN61ZYdG1MZl6e2SJXx7osGzPLCg8BuoJ9zT0eN7PeBQ1KBjHLc4Wr V044v8SnXR43ZdfA00UblNNJIpx7icjx4tD8zkFeI/rg8Te0JxsumGOwFm9864CHSXc/ bdqSYJUoF/oo71fm6gYKlLJYERzVKdilLm9+Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e6AC3ozrs1YHCP7mb0dZQqSKMKd7+2U0tYs+i+AxPLAPwZ3xamhvRFIIEOyM9QW5F6 bGVM7h+9hUWeMb4b9U17WtwGu7U0wx3uDCNzk483bDniFsftpZCpD7bBWB038gusvu6L qzfqSwFhaSIPNftZyB49Lp48r67bvpKRtTXTQ= Received: by 10.101.175.21 with SMTP id c21mr1693513anp.67.1301555059698; Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-95-130-79.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.130.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c18sm910571ana.27.2011.03.31.00.04.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D942770.5050307@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:04:16 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions! References: <4D91EBB9.1020506@gentoo.org> <1301514568-sup-9005@ittemni> <1301516070.2683.28.camel@TesterTop4> <1301516703-sup-4759@ittemni> <4D93A385.4000105@gmail.com> <20110331054704.GB2763@zptr-nb18> <4D94183E.2000605@gmail.com> <1301553097-sup-9739@ittemni> In-Reply-To: <1301553097-sup-9739@ittemni> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fd0d01e57cb90b51a3254c2a353ea4ef Amadeusz =C5=BBo=C5=82nowski wrote: > Excerpts from Alec Warner's message of Thu Mar 31 08:23:45 +0200 2011: > =20 >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Dale wrote: >> =20 >>> Eray Aslan wrote: >>> In all seriousness, this has been discussed before and it doesn't >>> get any better. I'm not sure how to fix it either. The space for >>> the description is limited. >>> =20 > What is the limit? Anyway we can change it, cannot we? And you can > always write shortly something better than =E2=80=9CEnable support for = foo=E2=80=9D. > > > =20 I don't recall the exact amount but it is sort of small. After all, if=20 there was no limit, some would write a book about the flag. ;-) > =20 >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Dale wrote: >> Read the ebuild? >> =20 > Read-the-ebuild? And maybe unpack the archive, check configure's help, > read the README, INSTALL and so, and analyze source code to eventually > find out what the flag does? This that what user is supposed to do for > every package? > =20 If I am expected to read every single thing installed on here, I would=20 never get to use the puter for anything else. I have almost 1,000=20 packages on here. Most of which I really don't need to know the inner=20 working of as a user. USE flags could come in handy tho. I always=20 check them before a upgrade/install. I was just reading through the USE file, it is a lot better than it used=20 to be. Someone has been doing some work in there. There are still some=20 that I am clueless about but a lot of them are better. I like these: directfb - Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices) latex - Adds support for LaTeX (typesetting package) Those two are pretty good to be so short. Dale :-) :-)