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 1RDOhx-00032I-PA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:52:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F083B21C3A3; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE2721C38F for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:46:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1088DEB9D for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:46:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FapLCmJnUwIX for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:59:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690E5DEB69 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:46:36 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tabbed x11-terms/rxvt-unicode Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:46:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201110081943.47765.francesco.talamona@know.eu> <4E9099E9.9050301@orlitzky.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9099E9.9050301@orlitzky.com> X-KMail-Markup: true Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary-01=_LX3kOIJo/HmcaCO" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201110102346.35831.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 865bcd2b2613bf5ecd222d6e061cff68 --Boundary-01=_LX3kOIJo/HmcaCO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Saturday 08 October 2011 19:43:53 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some > day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable > support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it > affects a given package. I did file a bug a year or two ago about the almost uselessness of USE flag descriptions. It caused a flurry of activity in quite a few packages, but conspicuous silence in the rest. Needless to say, the activity soon died away and the status quo resumed. Programmers are not writers of English, by and large. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 --Boundary-01=_LX3kOIJo/HmcaCO Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Saturday 08 October 2011 19:43:53 Michael Orlitzky wrote:


> I'm going to start a bug-filing campaign against packages like this some

> day. The only description we ever get for use flag foo is 'enable

> support for foo', which doesn't tell you anything at all about how it

> affects a given package.


I did file a bug a year or two ago about the almost uselessness of USE flag descriptions. It caused a flurry of activity in quite a few packages, but conspicuous silence in the rest. Needless to say, the activity soon died away and the status quo resumed. Programmers are not writers of English, by and large.


--

Rgds

Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23


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