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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Subject: Re: why gentoo doesn't have long description?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:47:56 +0100
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:26:54 -0300 conan@... wrote:
| - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?

We don't.

| - 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)

Already there. Check metadata.xml. It supports long descriptions in
multiple languages.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web             : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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