From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18628 invoked by uid 1002); 22 May 2003 19:19:04 -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 10152 invoked from network); 22 May 2003 19:19:04 -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 14:17:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030522183405.GB3208@Daikan.pandora.be> (Sven Vermeulen's message of "Thu, 22 May 2003 20:34:05 +0200") Message-ID: <87k7cin63m.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: 5bfd563e-7a4b-446f-bf66-360ac8b038d8 X-Archives-Hash: 42688c33665f770435cab3396bb2e79d 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. I think thats just an excuse. Many ebuilds in there have little in the way of an upstream webpage. You cannot assume the URL will have more information about the package. Matt -- Matthew Kennedy Gentoo Linux Developer -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list