Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improved user information and communication

2005-10-01 Thread Daniel Stiefelmaier
I thought of a command like emerge mozilla-firefox --useinfo that prints what each flag is good for. Maybe some are explained in 5 words, other may need 5 lines. Personally, I think that this has only become necessary because USE flags are overloaded too much and usually encompass an

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improved user information and communication

2005-10-01 Thread Daniel Stiefelmaier
man emerge provides information on possible options, why should there not be a way to get information on an ebuilds option??? because emerge is the tool, not the object. You wouldn't expect the openoffice documentation to cover examples for different kinds of letters, would you? err.. i

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Improved user information and communication

2005-10-01 Thread Daniel Stiefelmaier
Jamming a 'built-in list of use flags' into ebuilds/metadata.xml first of all is vague, I tried to explain simon that i don't want to have the explanations built into the emerge-programm, because i thought he understood me that way. second of all is going to jack up the tree's size, i