Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: length of the DESCRIPTION variable

[Petteri Räty]

Petteri Räty kirjoitti:
> Current devmanual suggest to not use line lengths over 80 characters.
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html
>
> I wrote a repoman check that checks that the value doesn't go over 80.
> This is useful for tools like eix that show the DESCRIPTION. The thing
> is that lots of ebuilds will fail this currently. Do you think we should
> use a higher limit like 100? qualudis seems to use 120 currently.
>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>

Seems devmanual is currently putting the limit to 80 too.

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html

DESCRIPTION  	 A short (less than 80 characters) description of the 
package's purpose.

Regards,
Petteri