Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions

[Ernst Herzberg <earny@net4u.de>]

On Freitag, 23. Mai 2003 00:06, Vadim wrote:

> 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.

Put the long descriptions in a separate package, like a gentoo description 
database. If somebody need it, he can emerge it. Then the portage tree 
will not grow because of the long descriptions, and you can split the 
descrition database for example in pieces, so you dont have to download 
the complete database if one package description changes. 
If emerge -S find such a database, it will search that too, if not, then 
not ;-)

If somebody even has enough sparetime, this package can be easy extended, 
for example to search also a database on the net..

... only thinking....

<Earny>

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