Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread Alec Warner
On Monday 06 March 2006 17:39, Paul de Vrieze wrote: I guess some advanced /etc/portage/bashrc magic isn't enough for you? There are some neat tricks you can play with that. While magic is great, it is also not for all end users. bashrc magic is not officially supported by the Portage t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 06 March 2006 17:49, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Documentation is uncountable. So no singular or plural ;-) Uh, that was meant ironic, considering Ciaran's remarks to others, that they should know about this or that, leading to the one or the other inflaming thread. But thanks for the expl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 06 March 2006 17:39, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > I guess some advanced /etc/portage/bashrc magic isn't enough for you? > There are some neat tricks you can play with that. I consider this sort of ugly hack. And I don't see the point why everyone should do this, while a maintainer, even when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Monday 06 March 2006 18:11, MIkey wrote: > Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > Take a look at the options offered by a custom /etc/portage/bashrc. One > > can do almost anything there. You can have it read in configuration files > > and whatever. The documentation is kindof lacking, but most portage > > f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:02, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 02:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > This is undocumented and unofficial, so feel free to utterly ignore > > it and commit whatever the heck you want. > > > > The 'doc' and 'examples' (yay for consistency!) > > Don't no

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-06 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:00, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: > > If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc > > entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the > > docs USE flag is off by default. Making mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Dan Armak
On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:00, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: > > If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc > > entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the docs > > USE flag is off by default. Making mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 05:43:22PM +0200, Dan Armak wrote: > Has anyone actually complained that too many docs are installed by > default? Don't know about docs, but if examples count here too, see bug #111508. pgpWPL45zC4Dq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Saturday 04 March 2006 02:04, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > This is undocumented and unofficial, so feel free to utterly ignore it > and commit whatever the heck you want. > > The 'doc' and 'examples' (yay for consistency!) Don't now, if I guess right what you want to say, but there's no plural of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: > If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc > entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the docs > USE flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag would install > less docs. Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Dan Armak
On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:15, Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi Ciaran, > > On 3/4/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Explanation: a USE flag for trivial stuff that isn't in /etc, doesn't > > slow anything down, doesn't introduce any dep bloat and generally > > doesn't change anything n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-04 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi Ciaran, On 3/4/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Explanation: a USE flag for trivial stuff that isn't in /etc, doesn't > slow anything down, doesn't introduce any dep bloat and generally > doesn't change anything noticeable isn't a USE flag that's giving the > user any meaningful

[gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

2006-03-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
This is undocumented and unofficial, so feel free to utterly ignore it and commit whatever the heck you want. The 'doc' and 'examples' (yay for consistency!) USE flags are intended for use where building documentation or examples would take a long time, introduce new dependencies or otherwise be a