On Monday, 24 June 2019 18:35:21 BST Mick wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2019 18:04:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 24 June 2019 16:32:19 BST Mick wrote: > > > I also found this beauty in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, which I > > > uncommented: > > > > > > # The DisableAutoSpawn option will disable the autospawn mechanism. > > > > That's the sort of stupid explanation that gives technical authors and > > other program documenters a bad name. Gentoo seems to be particularly > > heavily afflicted with it. > > Clearly you have suffered in the hands of USE flag descriptors, which would > make even the priestesses of the Oracle of Delphi sound coherent and > unambiguous. LOL!
I even raised a bug about it a few years ago. There was quite a flurry of activity in rewriting USE flag descriptions, but it soon died away. -- Regards, Peter.

