> On 16 Sep 2017, at 17:16, Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on >> thing-provisioning-tools and getting told it was "tools for thin >> provisioning". > > I raised a bug report about that once, against use.desc. There was a flurry > of activity as devs looked around their own bailiwicks and fixed them, then > everything went quiet again.
Really? I started threads at least twice on gentoo-dev (now years ago), and it seemed to have no effect. I've given up expecting USE descriptions to be useful. > It's an example of no designer or coder enjoying any of the still important > bits left over when the acceptance test is passed. +1 Stroller.
