Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 14:49:29 +0200:
> Duncan wrote: >> What's actually >> needed is a use.local.desc that includes all packages with all flag >> listings and a description of what each does in each package. > > We already have that documentation.. It's just not written in english > but in bash ;) In some cases, yes. However, take that pan example. The ebuild makes the dependency on libgnome clear, but it doesn't say the only thing that dependency does is allow pan to use the browser configured for gnome. That's a pretty major entanglement for the benefit, particularly when one can simply set the $BROWSER var instead, as an alternative. (BTW, the basis of that example is changing. Looks like Charles is going back to having a pan preferences config entry for it. The point still stands, tho. That's an awful big dependency for a relatively small benefit, and while the ebuild says gnomelib, it says nothing about what the gnomelib dependency actually /does/.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
