From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31261 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 18:56:36 -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 30842 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 18:56:36 -0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:56:33 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200305222012.06989.vadim_t@teleline.es> <20030522183405.GB3208@Daikan.pandora.be> In-Reply-To: <20030522183405.GB3208@Daikan.pandora.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305221456.34972.absinthe@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions X-Archives-Salt: 505f0fc0-9b8c-49f6-8f17-882eddd35095 X-Archives-Hash: 37a3ab1f7221e492ea84c7c33b8b4eee =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu May 22 2003 2:34 pm, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > This is why you also get the URL, so you can find out for yourself. I'm > not in favor of adding a "long" description as other package formats do, > although I won't object -- this is just my personal opinion. > I'm glad someone else brought it up. And since it's been mentioned, I want= =20 to say I support the idea of a long description. The short descriptions=20 should be under a fixed number of characters, and the long-descriptions=20 should be allowed as many characters as needed to describe the package=20 completely. =20 And some packages do in fact need a lot of explanation. The existing=20 DESCRIPTION metadata is not sufficient, and ebuild comments nor ChangeLog=20 entries are adequate for this. It's one area that *BSD ports have an advantage (imo). Cheers, Dylan Carlson Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0x708E165F Key fingerprint =3D 3AEA DE38 FE42 15A6 C0E2 730E 3D04 BCC1 708E 165F =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zR1hPQS8wXCOFl8RAlDmAJ9C88WfdnB5hG2JiKMJOPGh1diziwCgnUsM 81/uaDskRTBJMFhxoaFeUA4=3D =3Dir2M =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list