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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:45, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 22:18 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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>>> so instead of a short but useful hint, which is enough in 95% of cases, |
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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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I think you misunderstand the entire issue. What's wrong with a more detailed |
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description as an addition to the one we already have in use.desc? |
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> you would still have thousands of descriptions, a lot of them redundand, as a |
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> 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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There would be an advantage, I just doubt it would be worth the effort because |
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in most cases reading the ebuild will give you a detailed idea about what it |
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does. There are exceptions though, as Duncan pointed out. |
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>>> Are you insane? |
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>> Are you rude? |
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> yes, maybe? |
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Yes, definitively. You know, you could actually said 'sorry', but that would |
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probably be "insane", right? |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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