Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION

[Robert Buchholz <rbu@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday, 24. July 2007 14:26, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti:
> > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:44:52 +0200
> >
> > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would
> >> make it impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove
> >> some duplication.
> >
> > Got to be careful here. In the past it's been stated that Portage
> > won't use XML for anything that it has to parse.
>
> Well here we need to answer the question whether searching
> DESCRIPTION strings is a core feature. I have never used emerge
> --searchdesc but that might be just me.

I believe it to be a core feature. How else am I to find an rss reader 
in portage without having any preference or knowledge before 
installing? Or some random tool to convert X to Y.
Often, features are not part of the name.

Robert
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