From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32040 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 19:08:01 -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 28409 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 19:08:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:07:23 -0700 From: Seemant Kulleen Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030522120723.4cbbe924.seemant@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1053630119.27418.46.camel@isengard.aravir.net> References: <200305222012.06989.vadim_t@teleline.es> <1053628293.18703.6.camel@wolf.codewordt.co.uk> <1053630119.27418.46.camel@isengard.aravir.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.FbaUqQz,VBwvI?" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions X-Archives-Salt: a6da3f3d-cbaa-4efd-97ea-4d5d54d7ea81 X-Archives-Hash: 4fe8b1cfb9ba849a60691c298f323490 --=.FbaUqQz,VBwvI? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Heh. This has come up before. Karltk and I had a conversation about it, not too long ago. In fact, Daniel and I discussed this as well. The short descriptions do need to be cleaned up and be of a certain length. The long descriptions, well, there's an interesting way too look at it. For anyone in the #gentoo channels, you'll see every now and then, that I'll have some big output about a description. Basically, it is a script which looks something up at freshmeat.net and then returns that description. Granted, this will not work for many of the packages in portage, but for most of the free/open ones a dynamic freshmeat lookup can be done (and then cached). Of course, if a box is offline, then there are other considerations. My point is, the majority of the long descriptions really do not need to be written. My 3 dollars, -- Seemant Kulleen Developer and Project Co-ordinator, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~seemant Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3458780E Key fingerprint = 23A9 7CB5 9BBB 4F8D 549B 6593 EDA2 65D8 3458 780E --=.FbaUqQz,VBwvI? Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zR/r7aJl2DRYeA4RAirkAJ9NYIH1+P8lluzIjWEAYoSuqrv8NgCbBLLP pat8nuBtKZxJchdrpB+2frs= =j3oF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.FbaUqQz,VBwvI?--