From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7x7a-0003Cc-I3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:24:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OFMQM0012746; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:22:26 GMT Received: from smtp801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.138]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OFCxH1019239 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:12:59 GMT Received: (qmail 41553 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2005 15:14:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wadham.oxford.ac.uk) (jmconveyors@86.133.24.175 with plain) by smtp801.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Aug 2005 15:14:02 -0000 Received: by wadham.oxford.ac.uk (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 david.morgan@wadham.oxford.ac.uk; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:13:27 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:13:27 +0100 From: David Morgan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? Message-ID: <20050824151327.GA2665@valinor.dynalias.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> <20050823224756.667089f1@snowdrop.home> <558b73fb05082320393c29effc@mail.gmail.com> <430C1848.7020609@gmail.com> <430C1B43.9040108@sdf-eu.org> <20050824110803.GA4532@lugmen.org.ar> <558b73fb050824070378013489@mail.gmail.com> <342e109050824075714b860b@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <342e109050824075714b860b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-Archives-Salt: ba9258c0-238a-4ddc-8162-bafce1eea0f7 X-Archives-Hash: 7d9beb47e085ae62e6ba32439601dc82 On 11:57 Wed 24 Aug , Daniel da Veiga wrote: > You know bud, read some rules, be polite. > > "If you have nothing good to say, say NOTHING!". > > Do you really THINK before replying? Have you added something to the > question? Care more about WHAT people write than WHERE is it written, > you'll be more happy. Comments like yours are good for old usenet > users, and pointless today. > I told him how to stop top posting though. I also told him that some of the information he had given was incorrect. I was just dumbfounded by his stupidity, sorry. > To the point, I never really had to read long descs provided at the > website to have a good glance on what the program is, the fact that > the desc showed in emerge -s is short doesn't make it less clear, in > fact, it has all that matters. People searching with emerge usually > KNOW what they're looking for. > Some of them are better/clearer/more informative than others, but I guess that that's a separate issue. > On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to have a long description of the > app somewhere available offline (like the universal CD, for example). > I'm pretty sure they can use the same system of the website to provide > this offline (but is it worth the trouble?). > The ones that are available are available 'offline' (i.e. in the portage tree), as stated earlier in this thread. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list