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 1M5dqY-00085r-BP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50573E022B; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27187E022B for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D062865990 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.464 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.464 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.135, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id PteCS0yoa7bg for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD8D65ABC for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M5dqI-00025m-Is for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:42 +0000 Received: from athedsl-386372.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.61.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:42 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-386372.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 10:43:42 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: DESCRIPTION size Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:43:41 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4A0FDEE6.8080605@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-386372.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090429) In-Reply-To: <4A0FDEE6.8080605@gentoo.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 3d761999-2903-4111-aabc-435505b0541d X-Archives-Hash: 7cb650fa260bf61e31abdb5cdfff163d Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Hi, > > According to devmanunal [1], DESCRIPTION should be 80 characters max but > according to repoman, DESCRIPTION should be 100 characters max. > I'm confused, who should I believe ? :) > > [1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html Though I'm not a Gentoo dev, I'd say common sense dictates that the 80 characters limit is just a recommendation based on the 80x25 characters the default VGA text-mode supports. In other words, "one line of text." In any event, I don't think any short description of any package would need more than that. But also don't think you would break any "rules" by using more than 80, unless it becomes clearly too long.