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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 16:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> I think the problem here was that longdescription was in an ebuild, but |
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> was empty. |
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> Also, packages.gentoo.org doesn't use this data, but rather just the |
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> DESCRIPTION field in the ebuild, at least for the few that I checked |
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> that have a longdescription in metadata.xml... |
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I know it doesn't, that does not preclude that it was mainly meant for |
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such purposes. There has even been a short expirmental package list based |
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on xml/xslt which used it, but it's searching mode was way too slow, so |
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it was abandoned. |
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In any case a longdescription tag if present should not be empty. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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