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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please enhance your USE descriptions!
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:19:01 +0300
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On 03/29/2011 08:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, justin<jlec@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the descriptions of USE flags should explain what the USE is good for.
>> In my opinion some thing like
>>
>> Enables foo intergration
>> or
>> Enables support for foo
>>
>> if it isn't totally clear what "foo" is, sucks!! There are many, many
>> description which do not tell me as a user without googling what I could
>> enable or not. That doesn't make gentoo very user friendly!
>>
>> So please enhance you descriptions!!
>>
>>
>> Thanks justin
>
> One USE flag I remember in particular bothering me was
> gnome-extra/gnome-games' guile USE flag.
>
> The global description says "guile - Adds support for the guile Scheme
> interpreter" but this flag is actually determines whether a number of
> games are installed by this package.
The most extreme one I remember is the "gtk" flag of GCC:
"Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)"
Hmm, OK. So without that flag, GCC won't be able to build gtk? Or gimp?
Or any software using gtk?