Re: [gentoo-dev] special small-files USE flag without effect on dependencies: [ unicode ]

[Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>]

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On 2/9/24 7:04 PM, Sam James wrote:
> 
> Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> 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... :)


-- 
Eli Schwartz

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