From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1205 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jun 2003 10:45:45 -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 3924 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 10:45:44 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:44:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3EE5EA76.7090805@komcept.com> <1109.10.0.0.1.1055327822.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> <20030611061056.B1052@datanode.net> In-Reply-To: <20030611061056.B1052@datanode.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Fhw5+l+aka2byis"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200306111245.25788.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Readme files for portage (was: A nice idea to improve portage) X-Archives-Salt: 72b8d924-c04f-4b60-abae-231c2dcfba8b X-Archives-Hash: c287dd5be2ea6dc1fb93e03036f20bc3 --Boundary-02=_Fhw5+l+aka2byis Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 11 June 2003 12:10, Michael Cummings wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:37:02AM +0100, MooktaKiNG wrote: > > Another good reason to have a README is becuase sometimes people > > want to know more about a program. Without having to install it. > > > > If they can learn about the program before they install. They are > > more aware of how hard/easy the installtion is. > > I thought that was one of the reasons the source URL shows up in a > search. It's how I've always checked to see what a package does. README > files, imo, are great in theory but put additional maintenance strain on > a dev. Just my two euros, > Most probably the upcomming herds system will introduce a metadata file tha= t=20 also includes the possibility for a long description. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv --Boundary-02=_Fhw5+l+aka2byis Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+5whFbKx5DBjWFdsRAkgoAJ40y8t5bnycfzNSm6Fj5wE/1Gf+IwCdF64C 7Wz0lxgnbhtkGDowueZLzZQ= =r7Uz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Fhw5+l+aka2byis--