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 1E7ZA2-0002yM-HX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:49:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7NDm9R9012090; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:48:09 GMT Received: from outmx010.isp.belgacom.be (outmx010.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.233]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7NDhGJd008036 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:43:16 GMT Received: from outmx010.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by outmx010.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7NDi0Qs023440 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:44:00 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (88.7-201-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.201.7.88]) by outmx010.isp.belgacom.be (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-2.22) with ESMTP id j7NDhrNK023384 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:43:54 +0200 (envelope-from ) Message-ID: <430B4484.5010306@sdf-eu.org> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:45:08 +0000 From: Jonas Geiregat User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050822) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> In-Reply-To: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0ec1648f-6099-419d-8c81-dd5ca3002f5d X-Archives-Hash: 32748fe0509027a243167c35b160cd42 conan@lugmen.org.ar wrote: >The questions would be: >- why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough? >- it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the > political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some > LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds) > > I think it's political correct to add this option to emerge, technically I would use the package metadata.xml file which contains a less brief explenation on what's the package about. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list