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

["Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org>]

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) kirjoitti:
>> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would make it
>> impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove some duplication.
>
> <shortdescription>
> </shortdescription>
>
> sounds like something for EAPI-1
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186454

right, we can just get rid of DESCIRPTION

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:06:40 +0300
> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> But is there anything that makes use of version specific DESCRIPTION
>> atoms?
> 
> Yep. Have a look at sys-devel/gcc for example. Some versions include
> various extensions, and say so in DESCRIPTION.

and put details like this in <longdescription>.

Marijn
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