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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions
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On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 21:02, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> My biggest point against long descriptions is the fact they need to be 
> written. That is not such a big point if the users will do it. I do think 
> though that a description file might be more appropriate than putting the 
> long description in the ebuild. A package description should always be the 
> same I feel, even over versions.
> 
> Paul

I suppose other distributions such as Mandrake wont mind us borrowing
their usually nice descriptions?
I'm all for a long description, and I don't think it will take a lot of
resources to implement.
-F


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