Summary: | Keywords Proposal: Need netter clarity | ||
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Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Craig Dubal <cpdubal> |
Component: | Documentation | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547375-highlight-.html | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Craig Dubal
2007-03-22 01:48:29 UTC
a) I assume you're talking about use flags, not keywords (that's an important difference b) You said something about a "Proposal" in the summary, but I don't actually see any proposal or suggestion for a solution in this report or the referenced forum thread(s), just a description of the perceived problem. So if you want to make a proposal then please write it down, otherwise please don't put misleading information in the summary c) This is nothing that portage can fix (as it is not a technical problem), and bugzilla is the wrong forum for global enhancement requests, use the gentoo-dev mailing list instead (or write a GLEP, but in the end it has to go to the list anyway) d) It's not exactly the first time this topic comes up, but the main problem is simply that nobody actually writes better/more verbose descriptions. In the end it all comes down to someone going though the list and checking each description if it is useful enough, and if not write a better description, in many cases also writing more specialized descriptions for global flags for each package using them. There are already technical means to do that, they just need to be used. e) Even if someone does d) it may not make you happy enough, as different people have different definitions of "useful". For example I think the description of the "doc" flag is perfectly fine, you disagree with that which is ok, but don't expect me to spend time on writing a hundred (or more) specialized descriptions for every package using that flag. Closing as INVALID for the above reasons, if you want that anything is done about this you'll have to find/get some people to do the actual work of writing better descriptions (and people who didn't understand the current descriptions would be more qualified for that job than the original authors). Once you have better descriptions file bugs about the specific flags to let the maintainers know. |