Eli Schwartz writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On 2/9/24 7:04 PM, Sam James wrote: >> >> Eli Schwartz writes: >>> Often, USE flags have an obvious point even without selecting or >>> deselecting dependencies -- usually because their maintainers took care >>> in describing it in metadata.xml. >>> >> >> To pick up on this point: yes, if one concludes the USE flag has merit >> and the global description is either poor or has some reason to be >> considered spurious in the case of the package, you should consider >> documenting it to avoid this question. >> >> Adding a suppression like https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/issues/478 >> proposes should really be accompanied by such an improvement anyway for >> the benefit of users. > > > I'd like to request in the event that this pkgcheck ticket is > implemented, that including a description in metadata.xml which provides > additional package specific information (or, programmatically, "is > non-empty and un-equal to the global description") is made mandatory for > the purposes of silencing this warning... :) parona ended up messaging me and pointing out that https://pkgcore.github.io/pkgcheck/man/pkgcheck.html#useflagwithoutdeps already says... > In cases where this USE flag is appropriate, you can silence this > warning by adding a description to this USE flag in metadata.xml file > and thus making it a local USE flag instead of global one. which I think pretty much solves the full thing already...