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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:23:54
Message-Id: 20030523102354.GA1413@Daikan.pandora.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Horrible package descriptions by Matt Tucker
1 On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:59:31PM -0700, Matt Tucker wrote:
2 > Keep in mind that another thing long descriptions are good for (as
3 > Vadim pointed out in the original post) is something else to search
4 > against.
5
6 I'd rather not have to grep the output of the search command because it
7 yields useless results as apt-cache search does. Imho the short description
8 should be enough to know what a package is for.
9
10 Wkr,
11 Sven Vermeulen
12 Gentoo Documentation
13
14 --
15 Thanks to DRM, you know that something has been built in environment of
16 unspecified degree of security, from source you cannot check, written by
17 programmers you don't know, released after passing QA of unknown quality and
18 which is released under a license that disclaims any responsibility...