From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:18:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160721142332.GA25854@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54495) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQFkY-0000vR-Hv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:18:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQFkT-0007KW-JI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:18:57 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22f]:36218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQFkS-0007K6-D2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:18:53 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id u134so76822814ywg.3 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2016 08:18:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20160721142332.GA25854@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel Some basic USE flags would be nice, even if it's just used for documenting which configure-flags and inputs are needed for which feature. I think this would also resolve the sorting inputs alphabetically issue, since there would be real metadata there instead of just a source comment. > I think that's a case where the knowledge embodied by the comments and > ordering is worth more than sorting alphabetically. This requires python2-sphinx to be installed when building even if you are not interested in the doc output.