From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "."
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:09:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1350713353.12879.57.camel@belkin4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121019223736.33f2ee38@pomiocik.lan>
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El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:37 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:01:57 +0200
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would
> > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman
> > warning?
>
> In my opinion, descriptions should not be sentences. Sentences
> in English not only need to end with a dot but also require a subject
> and a predicate. That makes them unnecessarily long, filled with
> useless information like repeated package name and obvious 'is',
> at least.
>
> So, rephrasing the example Alexandre pasted, consider:
>
> x11-libs/qt-core - The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application
> development framework.
>
> vs.
>
> x11-libs/qt-core - A comprehensive C++ application development framework
>
> Which one is better, in your opinion?
>
Well, I my case I would prefer second sentence... but it would still end
with a dot. But if it sounds rare for you, no problem.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-19 19:01 [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot "." Pacho Ramos
2012-10-19 19:27 ` Doug Goldstein
2012-10-19 19:36 ` Thomas Sachau
2012-10-19 21:25 ` vivo75
2012-10-20 10:09 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-20 16:51 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-10-19 20:17 ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-10-19 20:37 ` Michał Górny
2012-10-19 22:37 ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-20 6:09 ` Pacho Ramos [this message]
2012-10-20 14:27 ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-20 14:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-20 16:14 ` Michał Górny
2012-10-20 10:12 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-10-21 1:34 ` Ben de Groot
2012-10-21 6:37 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-21 4:35 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2012-10-22 4:42 ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-10-30 7:18 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mike Frysinger
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