Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions

[Paul de Vrieze]

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Paul de Vrieze
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On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 15:34, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Thursday 22 May 2003 21:19, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> > Actually, in addition to my last post, I can see that maintaining a
> > long description in portage will increase the size of your portage
> > download considerably.  I suppose that would need to be considered as
> > well.
> 
> If the descriptions where in their own files (they should hardly change) it 
> should not be a big problem. We could even compress them.

My preference, as well, would be to have a DESCRIPTION file in each
package directory.  As far as the limit for the short description, by
policy it's a single (if sometimes rather lengthy) line.

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>

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