From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4056 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 20:54:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6242 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 20:54:34 -0000 From: Spundun Bhatt To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1053628293.18703.6.camel@wolf.codewordt.co.uk> References: <200305222012.06989.vadim_t@teleline.es> <1053628293.18703.6.camel@wolf.codewordt.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053635336.1242.18.camel@mermaid.isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 22 May 2003 13:28:56 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions X-Archives-Salt: ae3c6090-0e14-4c5b-8ff2-6eb318ef49b1 X-Archives-Hash: 2c922be745d61da9ec61654cc682a815 >>From my experience so far with gentoo... I have a feedback. A couple of times I wished the categories were more specific, Once I was looking for a juke box.. I wished I could search for all the sw simlar to xmms. And the other time it was sound editing rosegarden like software. Most of the time I am just curious how many varieties in a perticular app category are available... a catagory like gams could definately use it. Hope this helpls Spundun On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 11:31, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 19:12, Vadim wrote: > > I think that Gentoo needs some better way of describing packages. For example, > > I think it would also be a good idea to add longer descriptions, like those > > It's a nice idea. On the theme of metadata that runs throughout the > entire distribution however there is a common argument against it. The > current information points the user to the package homepage which is > considered as the most uptodate and proficient resource of that > information. This also prevents information duplication and the need to > maintain it. > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list