Hi!
I just opened this in gentoo-portage-dev, but Jason Stubbs told me my
ideas are either bad or belong to THIS list, so i try my luck again...
I'd like to have a functionality that prints out what the useflags of a
ebuild are good for. Some are obvious, others are not. Example:
The useflag "xprint" sounds like printing support, but doesn't tell if
you need it if you use cups or the kde-printing system or... whatever.
Jason stated:
Take the USE flag "perl", for example. It has the description "Adds
support/bindings for the Perl language." but for mysql setting it enables the
installation of some support scripts that just happen to be written in perl.
Another thing is, that i'd like to get some additional information on
some ebuilds.
Like HOWTOs, known issues, configuration help, related ebuilds (not
dependant but useful together)
In my opinion, the easiest way would be a wiki.
Ebuilds could contain an additional field "EBUILDNOTES" or the like,
providing the URL.
An even more simple way would be to have portage tools (eix, emerge)
print an automatically generated link like
http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Ebuild:www-client/mozilla-firefox
as mediawiki pages always have a discussion page attached, this could be
used to get in touch with the maintainers of that package. (Only if they
want that. This could be noted on the page)
thanks for reading and answering :)
Caliga
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