Bug 190431

Summary:	unclear description of "profile" USE flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christopher Covington <covracer>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christopher Covington 2007-08-27 17:32:12 UTC

The current description of the USE flag is somewhat ambiguous, making it possible for a less-experienced user to mistakenly think it has to do with Gentoo's profile system.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. euses profile

Actual Results:  
profile - Adds profile support to builds of packages (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild in support)

Expected Results:  
Rewording the description to talk about "profiling" would probably remove most confusion between adding support for program profiling (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/handbook.xml?part=6&chap=4) and Gentoo profiles (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_chap2).

profile - Adds support for software profiling (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-08-27 17:44:46 UTC

and maybe throw in the terms "performance analysis" ... or steal some other keywords from wikipedia :)

Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-18 04:04:09 UTC

-profile - Adds profile support to builds of packages (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild in support)
+profile - Adds support for software performance analysis (will likely vary from ebuild to ebuild)

DIdn't want to repeat the word we are trying to define in the description :)