From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2697 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 19:21:06 -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 32028 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 19:21:06 -0000 To: Gentoo-Dev mailinglist References: <200305222012.06989.vadim_t@teleline.es> <20030522183405.GB3208@Daikan.pandora.be> From: Matthew Kennedy Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 14:19:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030522183405.GB3208@Daikan.pandora.be> (Sven Vermeulen's message of "Thu, 22 May 2003 20:34:05 +0200") Message-ID: <87fzn6n605.fsf@killr.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions X-Archives-Salt: 6c7b85a1-49fc-4848-bd59-19f1c6e1a057 X-Archives-Hash: 59763dd429c8a663b6011f82dbec6498 Sven Vermeulen 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. -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list