On Tuesday 11 October 2011, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.
Do you remember the bug id?
Cheers
Francesco
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