On Friday 03 April 2009 18:59:24 Wyatt Epp wrote: > I was curious...what have people [...] noticed that is mildly irritating > and disruptive to the Gentoo experience?
/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and ...use.local.desc (though "mildly" isn't the word I'd use). For the most part they remind me of the old programming style that added such fatuous comments as "Set X = 1" to the simple assignment. These files are recommended in the installation documents as a source of information to guide decisions. With some notable exceptions, they give no such thing. I raised a bug complaining of this not long ago, which received one reply. Then silence. It's too hard a job, requiring understanding, imagination and a flair with words. It's also the hardest stumbling block in the way of a new installer. -- Rgds Peter
