On 2/9/24 7:04 PM, Sam James wrote: > > Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> writes: >> Often, USE flags have an obvious point even without selecting or >> deselecting dependencies -- usually because their maintainers took care >> in describing it in metadata.xml. >> > > To pick up on this point: yes, if one concludes the USE flag has merit > and the global description is either poor or has some reason to be > considered spurious in the case of the package, you should consider > documenting it to avoid this question. > > Adding a suppression like https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/issues/478 > proposes should really be accompanied by such an improvement anyway for > the benefit of users.
I'd like to request in the event that this pkgcheck ticket is implemented, that including a description in metadata.xml which provides additional package specific information (or, programmatically, "is non-empty and un-equal to the global description") is made mandatory for the purposes of silencing this warning... :) -- Eli Schwartz
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