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This has come up before. Karltk and I had a conversation about it, not too long ago. In fact, Daniel and I discussed this as well. The short descriptions do need to be cleaned up and be of a certain length. The long descriptions, well, there's an interesting way too look at it. For anyone in the #gentoo channels, you'll see every now and then, that I'll have some big output about a description. Basically, it is a script which looks something up at freshmeat.net and then returns that description. Granted, this will not work for many of the packages in portage, but for most of the free/open ones a dynamic freshmeat lookup can be done (and then cached). Of course, if a box is offline, then there are other considerations. My point is, the majority of the long descriptions really do not need to be written. |
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