Bug 251022

Summary:	Use.desc and use.local.desc contain large numbers of unhelpful descriptions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Humphrey <peter>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	serkan, strowi
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Humphrey 2008-12-15 13:12:48 UTC

Consider the list of USE flags for kopete in use.local.desc. The first five are:
addbookmarks - Enable the addbookmarks plugin
alias - Enable the alias plugin
autoreplace - Enable the autoreplace plugin
connectionstatus - Builds Connection Status plugin
contactnotes - Enable the contactnotes plugin

None of those offer any clue to the user as to their purpose, and they're woefully typical.. When I'm considering installing a package, I want to know what each USE flag does - what's in it for me.

The Gentoo installation documents refer to "A full description [of] the available USE flags" in use.desc. This is just not true; all that's given, in far too many cases, is a repetition of the name of the flag: no help at all to the newcomer to the package.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-15 20:44:33 UTC

Is

Comment 2 Serkan Kaba (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-16 07:07:01 UTC

As we talked with jmbsvicetto on IRC maybe we can use descriptions in http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdenetwork/kopete/plugins.html

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-13 16:54:36 UTC

Look at kde-base/kopete/metadata.xml, this appears to be fixed. If some description still doesn't please you, please reopen.