From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30823 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 22:06:33 -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 26342 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 22:06:33 -0000 From: Vadim Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 00:06:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305230006.23949.vadim_t@teleline.es> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions X-Archives-Salt: 20315866-f8d9-4c7c-9590-45f0173d2c0e X-Archives-Hash: c77fda4a563ee4061a75590533ce6101 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 May 2003 20:34, 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. Sure, that sometimes works. But not always. I can think of multiple problems with that. For example: That assumes that the web site says something useful about it. It might be a site from somebody who just put his/her stuff on the web in case somebody find it useful, with no documentation at all. Or it might happen to be some obscure tiny tool made by a large company that's got a huge site where you have to search for 15 minutes until your find something. Sometimes, you have network problems too. The site might be down. Or have moved somewhere else. Or perhaps you have a local Gentoo mirror and no internet connection due to problems/paranoid security. Then, there is a problem with searching. I'd like to be able to find SAMBA without knowing how it, or the protocol is called. Most people might try to search for "windows network", for example. The URL is not very helpful when you know what kind of tool you want, but not the exact tool. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zUnJvCkUtBccqkoRAlbqAJwPpC1UXhL2AgUa1E+KFoznmJJ8pgCeMkXI DDkKJdRKGbLpgCOAsy51LKE= =0Of6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list