On 03/29/2011 08:00 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, justin<j...@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?
