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On Thu May 22 2003 2:34 pm, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> This is why you also get the URL, so you can find out for yourself. I'm |
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> not in favor of adding a "long" description as other package formats do, |
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> although I won't object -- this is just my personal opinion. |
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I'm glad someone else brought it up. And since it's been mentioned, I want |
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to say I support the idea of a long description. The short descriptions |
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should be under a fixed number of characters, and the long-descriptions |
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should be allowed as many characters as needed to describe the package |
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completely. |
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And some packages do in fact need a lot of explanation. The existing |
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DESCRIPTION metadata is not sufficient, and ebuild comments nor ChangeLog |
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entries are adequate for this. |
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It's one area that *BSD ports have an advantage (imo). |
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Cheers, |
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Dylan Carlson |
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