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 1QOXzE-0003RD-OY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:28:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FCEE1C06D; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:27:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2991C00A for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 16:27:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so2875955gyh.40 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 09:27:28 -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=Xd4/TkGEluWJgQyaRNwxXlsUMBEwg0p72J2ZT4qoaA4=; b=jWYna67cBSXQZ4395r4UsCWvPkF3Y5uVeZvKto7r4OtGe2m4URj/QHrS/3JIa4BLRm ataUKtjUnAgdBFfh84oJioDiBx8Ws4YYa+kAjEM18O1QuxseY21XPAGxphrEn2HEmSjr DvPt+bjyjkWQ27plNXUOhSX8Qg2Q+Y9/fsOXw= 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=Dy8/S32bNDZFJmZv8ZbM+XYZhGNiBVyxdyLqqNCF9DJNsrLZfsmgQ08wcS5EbBVaJj 7Ez4OATKBJGY1xtRIMGHkoUiGCJ0hSMjo9h70prV52Nx03EiaHCl2WBXt+LcaYPPl9c3 cpv5rh/usNVawog0nXcpN8VC0Us41kGu6FNNU= Received: by 10.236.175.3 with SMTP id y3mr3381135yhl.62.1306168048445; Mon, 23 May 2011 09:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-108-236.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.108.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o63sm2776378yhn.4.2011.05.23.09.27.25 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 23 May 2011 09:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DDA8AE6.70106@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:27:18 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110517 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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] Should "server" be a global use flag? References: <4DDA6EA9.5040408@gentoo.org> <20110523171910.50e18ef0@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <20110523171910.50e18ef0@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fd316f21d1f4169b10b209b1514d079f Jeroen Roovers wrote: > > (I find myself wondering why so much information is being jammed into > USE flag descriptions that /should/ be available in HOWTOs from > upstream, or else should be written down in HOWTOs we maintain > ourselves - we (Gentoo) used to be good at providing HOWTOs as needed > and it's a good tradition to keep up. It helps the entire open source > community and not just our users, too.) > > Anyway, count the YESs above. Maybe some people want to > comment/explain/defend how they wrote their descriptions, so don't > touch them just yet. :) > > > jer > > The reason the info is there is so that users, like me, know what the USE flag is for. Me personally, I still think some of them don't help much and need more info but it is better than it used to be. So, if you can make them shorter and users still able to figure out what they do, great. If not, then the info needs to stay. Us users need it. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)