Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:48:45 -0800:
> Duncan wrote: > There have already been bugs opened about it (and closed), we're waiting > for a patch from someone who cares because we have higher priority things > to do. Most of the applications now have descriptions gotten from a > script, but libraries, protocol headers, fonts, etc lack them. It is > nontrivial to script the remaining poorly described packages because they > lack man pages from which the descriptions could be pulled. > > Again, we will be happy for this to happen but we cannot commit the time > necessary to do it. Fair enough. For those with the skills to do so, I'd rather you spend time getting the ebuild for the latest <whatever> out and debugged anyway. =8^) I take it therefore that there's no page on x.org where all this info is in pretty much one place? If I were interested in doing the research and collating the info, from your experience working with them, would this be something they'd find useful, as well as Gentoo? I can't code the stuff, but if it's waiting for someone to go thru some lists and wikis and whatever and create some sort of ordered list with descriptions, that I might be able to do, and of course the same list could be used to generate the missing description patches for Gentoo's packages as well. -- 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
