On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:59:32 +0100 Fabian Zeindl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Wouldn't it be great if there was a possibilty to put a short/long | info text in an ebuild which can be extracted by equery and which | explains what *exactly* a specific useflag changes for that package? | | For example: mplayer has a "gif" Useflag. | All I can get out of use.desc and use.local.desc is "enables gif | support". What exactly this means with mplayer, I don't know..
Mmm, I suggested extending metadata.xml to allow this a while back, but it looked like it was going to turn into another one of those huge "me vs foser" flamewars so I dropped the idea. Of course, extending the metadata.xml DTD and equery to support it is an entirely different thing from going through every package in the tree and adding in extra USE descriptions. But then, hopefully most of the time it's fairly obvious what USE flags do. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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