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On Saturday 12 August 2006 21:58, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:45, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: |
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> > His point is precisely that it's NOT useful enough. |
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> for him maybe. |
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But it is for most of us. I think the most important occasion of use of |
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use.desc is on first installation. That file is already quite large and |
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intimidating enough for the new user. |
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> > > concentrated in two files, you want the user to search all packages |
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> > > and read thousands of descriptions just to figure out if he wants the |
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> > > flag or not? |
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> > grep can do that quite efficiently. |
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> you would still have thousands of descriptions, a lot of them redundand, |
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> as a big pile. There would be NO advantage doing this. Instead of a short |
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> explanation, you would get tons of useless text... |
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I agree here; what I'd like to see is just a bit more thought given to |
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use.desc, to offer a hint to the growing user as to what to expect to |
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happen. A simple G or L flag would go a long way towards this, but it would |
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be more helpful to rewrite most of the descriptions with the user's point |
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of view in mind. In particular, "Adds support for foo" should be expunged |
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entirely. IMHO. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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