From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo-Dev mailinglist <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:19:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzn6n605.fsf@killr.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030522183405.GB3208@Daikan.pandora.be> (Sven Vermeulen's message of "Thu, 22 May 2003 20:34:05 +0200")
Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> writes:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 08:12:03PM +0200, Vadim wrote:
>> I think that Gentoo needs some better way of describing packages.
> [...]
>> I simply don't know what the heck does apsfilter do. Yeah, it prints, but
>> what? Does it use CUPS or it's generic? If I install it, will I get more
>> features in the KDE printing dialog, or it's invoked manually? If it "prints"
>> maybe it's a printer driver?
>
> This is why you also get the URL, so you can find out for yourself. I'm not
> in favor of adding a "long" description as other package formats do, although
> I won't object -- this is just my personal opinion.
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-22 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-22 18:12 [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions Vadim
2003-05-22 18:23 ` oford
2003-05-22 18:31 ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-05-22 19:01 ` John Robinson
2003-05-22 19:07 ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-05-22 20:28 ` Spundun Bhatt
2003-05-22 18:34 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-05-22 18:56 ` Dylan Carlson
2003-05-22 19:02 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-05-22 19:11 ` Dylan Carlson
2003-05-22 19:17 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-05-23 2:04 ` Frantz Dhin
2003-05-23 19:40 ` leon j. breedt
2003-05-22 20:59 ` Matt Tucker
2003-05-23 10:23 ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-05-22 19:17 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-05-22 19:19 ` Matthew Kennedy [this message]
2003-05-22 19:34 ` Paul de Vrieze
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2003-05-22 22:06 Vadim
2003-05-22 23:20 ` Ernst Herzberg
2003-05-23 2:55 ` John Nilsson
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