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From: Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome intrusion?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:20:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKpSnpKGhTrzeuNzQiP19oByj3i_+T9667AFwDbEdKnJ=3m3aA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161116215129.0cdc0f02@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de>

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> All this would be easier if upstream package developers  would explain
>> what the different config options really entail. Most of the times,
>> "./configure --help" is not that helpful.
>
> One could start a wiki entry for each use flag on the Gentoo wiki.
>
A package maintainer would probably be qualified to say what a flag
means to that package, and they might add it to the flag page.

Sometimes, reading the ebuild helps (e.g., vim), sometimes it doesn't
(e.g., firefox).

> Also, you can use "euse -i USEFLAGNAME" which is sometimes helpful,
> sometimes not - depending on how generic the description is.
>
Yes, this may help a bit too.

Regards,

Jorge


  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-16 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14  9:32 [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion? Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 17:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-14 19:03   ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 20:37 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-14 21:49   ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 23:51     ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-16 12:47     ` [gentoo-user] sans-dbus was: " Miroslav Rovis
2016-11-16 18:42       ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17  1:48         ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-17  7:56           ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-17  9:08             ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-19  9:21               ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-19 19:06                 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 19:16                   ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-19 20:47                     ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 21:07                       ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-19 21:23                         ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 22:34                           ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2016-11-19 22:36                           ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-20  0:36                           ` Walter Dnes
2016-11-19 21:59       ` [gentoo-user] " Tom H
2016-11-19 22:15         ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-20 18:40           ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-11-14 23:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Tselischev
2016-11-14 23:52   ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-15 17:39     ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-15 19:23       ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-15 19:32         ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-15 19:45           ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16  2:10     ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2016-11-16  7:23       ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16  9:08         ` Neil Bothwick
2016-11-16 11:25           ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 20:51             ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-11-16 21:20               ` Jorge Almeida [this message]
2016-11-17 20:42         ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2016-11-17 20:49           ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 23:32             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-11-14 23:55   ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow

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