Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:35:43 +0100:
>> "Support for X", fine, and as varied as that support might be, that's >> about as detailed as one can get in use.desc and stay accurate for all >> packages. > > I disagree. It's easy enough for use.desc to say "This will pull in the > whole X-Window System" or "Enables programs to handle WMF files". Or even > just to include a single-letter G or L prefix to each description as a > first step. But the thing is, different packages may do different things with a USE flag. Support for X is often linking against xlib (as in the example I gave), but doesn't have to be that major, and (again as in the example) could be a minor as adding a few icons and *.desktop files. The only way to describe the effect of a USE flag on each package, in many cases, is to do just that, make the description per package, not global. -- 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
