Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
Excerpts from Alec Warner's message of Thu Mar 31 08:23:45 +0200 2011:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Eray Aslan wrote:
In all seriousness, this has been discussed before and it doesn't
get any better. I'm not sure how to fix it either. The space for
the description is limited.
What is the limit? Anyway we can change it, cannot we? And you can
always write shortly something better than “Enable support for foo”.
I don't recall the exact amount but it is sort of small. After all, if
there was no limit, some would write a book about the flag. ;-)
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Read the ebuild?
Read-the-ebuild? And maybe unpack the archive, check configure's help,
read the README, INSTALL and so, and analyze source code to eventually
find out what the flag does? This that what user is supposed to do for
every package?
If I am expected to read every single thing installed on here, I would
never get to use the puter for anything else. I have almost 1,000
packages on here. Most of which I really don't need to know the inner
working of as a user. USE flags could come in handy tho. I always
check them before a upgrade/install.
I was just reading through the USE file, it is a lot better than it used
to be. Someone has been doing some work in there. There are still some
that I am clueless about but a lot of them are better. I like these:
directfb - Adds support for DirectFB layer (library for FB devices)
latex - Adds support for LaTeX (typesetting package)
Those two are pretty good to be so short.
Dale
:-) :-)
