From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M5eS2-00023I-Bw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:22:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 887E1E072F; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674DDE072F for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.199] (rke75-4-82-234-111-163.fbx.proxad.net [82.234.111.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9534E65563 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 11:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4A0FF37C.9030806@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:22:36 +0200 From: Mounir Lamouri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090416) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size References: <4A0FDEE6.8080605@gentoo.org> <18959.61115.100479.153990@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <18959.61115.100479.153990@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e0a49830-0327-42f5-b2e9-f43bfc602eaf X-Archives-Hash: a5fac5a3a48f6ad163d0c459370c7512 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > The devmanual also says "Where possible, try to keep lines no wider > than 80 positions." which would limit DESCRIPTION to 66 characters. > > These are guidelines, not strict rules. Keep it shorter if it's > reasonably possible. > Even guidelines should be consistent. If devmanual recommand <80 and repoman <100, in my opinion, someone is wrong. repoman should recommand <80 or devmanual should recommand <100. That's surely not a major issue even far from that but having some consistency in those guidelines is a minimum. IMHO, repoman should be updated to <80. Mounir