Improve the following flags (as discussed in gentoo-dev): evo, examples, expat, ffmpeg, flac, geoip, gnuplot, gnutls, libnotify, matroska, php, sharedext, simplexml, speex and tiff.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
index 6e92385ecf31..ebe71e247487 100644
--- a/profiles/use.desc
+++ b/profiles/use.desc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.379 2008/01/02 21:04:01 coldwind Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.desc,v 1.380 2008/01/02 21:14:17 coldwind Exp $
 
 # Keep them sorted
 
@@ -89,19 +89,19 @@ enscript - Add enscript support to colourize code stored in the repository
 esd - Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound Daemon)
 esoob - Adds support for Easysoft OOD database
 ev6 - Assume Alpha processor is EV6 or better
-evo - Adds support for evolution
-examples - Install example source code
+evo - Adds support for mail-client/evolution
+examples - Install examples, usually source code
 exif - Adds support for reading EXIF headers from JPEG and TIFF images
-expat - Enable the use of dev-libs/expat
+expat - Enable the use of dev-libs/expat for XML parsing
 fam - Enable FAM (File Alteration Monitor) support
 fastcgi - Add support for the FastCGI interface
 fbcon - Adds framebuffer support for the console, via the kernel
-ffmpeg - Enable ffmpeg support
+ffmpeg - Enable ffmpeg-based audio/video codec support
 fftw - Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms
 filepro - Adds support for filePro databases
 firebird - Adds support for the Firebird relational database
 firefox - Build against Firefox instead of Seamonkey/Mozilla
-flac - Adds support for the flac audio codec
+flac - Adds support for FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
 flatfile - Adds dbm support for flat files
 fltk - Adds support for the Fast Light Toolkit gui interface
 foomaticdb - Adds support for the foomatic printing driver database
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ gcj - Enable building with gcj (The GNU Compiler for the Javatm Programming Lang
 gd - Adds support for media-libs/gd (to generate graphics on the fly)
 gd-external - Use the external version of gd rather than the bundled one (possibly dangerous)
 gdbm - Adds support for sys-libs/gdbm (GNU database libraries)
-geoip - Add geoip support
+geoip - Add geoip support for country and city lookup based on IPs
 ggi - Adds support for media-libs/libggi (non-X video api/drivers)
 gif - Adds GIF image support
 gimp - Build a plugin for the GIMP
@@ -123,9 +123,9 @@ ginac - Adds sci-mathematics/ginac (symbolic math) support
 glut - Build an OpenGL plugin using the GLUT library
 gmp - Adds support for dev-libs/gmp (GNU MP library)
 gnome - Adds GNOME support
-gnuplot - Enable gnuplot support
+gnuplot - Enable support for gnuplot (data and function plotting)
 gnustep - Adds integration with GNUstep environment
-gnutls - Adds support for net-libs/gnutls
+gnutls - Adds support for net-libs/gnutls (TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 support)
 gphoto2 - Adds digital camera support
 gpm - Adds support for sys-libs/gpm (Console-based mouse driver)
 gps - Adds support for Global Positioning System
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ lesstif - Use lesstif over openmotif in cases where a program supports both
 libcaca - Add support for colored ASCII-art graphics
 libedit - Use the libedit library (replacement for readline)
 libgda - Adds GNOME Data Access support
-libnotify - Enable notification support
+libnotify - Enable desktop notification support
 libsamplerate - Build with support for converting sample rates using libsamplerate
 libwww - Adds libwww support (General purpose WEB API)
 lirc - Adds support for lirc (Linux's Infra-Red Remote Control)
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ m17n-lib - Enable m17n-lib support
 mad - Adds support for mad (high-quality mp3 decoder library and cli frontend)
 maildir - Adds support for maildir (~/.maildir) style mail spools
 mailwrapper - Adds mailwrapper support to allow multiple MTAs to be installed
-matroska - Adds support for the matroska container format
+matroska - Adds support for the matroska container format (extensions .mkv, .mka and .mks)
 matrox - Adds Matrox MGA support to mplayer
 mbox - Adds support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools
 mcal - Adds support for MCAL calendar system
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ pda - Adds support for portable devices
 pdf - Adds general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags
 perl - Adds support/bindings for the Perl language
 pfpro - Adds support for Verisign Payflow Pro
-php - Include support for php
+php - Include support for the PHP language
 pic - Build Position Independent Code.  Do not utilize this flag unless you know what you're doing
 plotutils - Adds plotutils support to gnuplot (library for 2-D vector graphics)
 png - Adds support for libpng (PNG images)
@@ -302,10 +302,10 @@ sdl - Adds support for Simple Direct Layer (media library)
 seamonkey - Adds support for the Seamonkey web-browser
 selinux - !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur
 session - Adds persistent session support
-sharedext - Adds support for building shared extensions in php
+sharedext - Adds support for building shared extensions in PHP
 sharedmem - Adds support for shared memory use
 shorten - Adds support for the shorten audio compressor
-simplexml - support for simplexml
+simplexml - support for SimpleXML
 skey - Enable S/Key (Single use password) authentication support
 slang - Adds support for the slang text display library (it's like ncurses, but different)
 slp - Adds Service Locator Protocol support
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ socks5 - Adds support for the socks5 proxy
 solid - Adds support for the Solid database engine
 source - Zip the sources and install them
 sox - Adds support for Sound eXchange (SoX)
-speex - Adds support for the speex audio codec
+speex - Adds support for the speex audio codec (used for speech)
 spell - Adds dictionary support
 spl - Adds support for the Standard PHP Library
 sqlite - Adds support for sqlite - embedded sql database
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tetex - Adds support for teTeX (typesetting package)
 theora - Adds support for the Theora Video Compression Codec
 threads - Adds threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads
 tidy - Adds support for HTML Tidy
-tiff - Adds support for the tiff image format
+tiff - Adds support for the TIFF image format
 timidity - Build with Timidity++ (MIDI sequencer) support
 tk - Adds support for Tk GUI toolkit
 tokenizer - Adds support for the PHP file parser