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-- "leon j. breedt" <ljb@×××××××××.org> spake thusly: |
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> that said, I'm not sure how much use a long description would be to |
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> me. the DESCRIPTION, along with the category/group, give me enough of |
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> a context to be able to fill in the blanks for most ebuilds. the only |
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> time I've actually read the description on other distributions was |
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> when browsing using a GUI tool :) |
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Keep in mind that another thing long descriptions are good for (as |
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Vadim pointed out in the original post) is something else to search |
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against. For instance, if I wanted to find something that plays |
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quicktime movies, I might search against 'quicktime'. Doing this on |
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Gentoo yields: |
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libquicktime, openquicktime, quicktime4linux |
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which isn't really all that useful. If I search against the |
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description, (which takes far, FAR too long -- almost 2 minutes -- this |
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data really needs to be indexed), I get: |
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libquicktime, openquicktime, quicktime4linux, xanim-export, xmovie |
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On Debian, I get: |
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quicktime-x11utils, libquicktime1, xawtv-plugin-qt, |
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libquicktime-dev, xmovie, dv-utils, dvgrab, xanim-modules, |
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xawtv, xine-ui, kino, libxine1, libxine-dev, camstream, |
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xanim, gnome-xine, |
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which shows quite a bit more, including a player that's worth using. |
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Sure, you could suggest that I formulate a better search, but often |
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this requires extra knowledge that a user may not have. |
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I recall that when I was running Debian and wanted to find a package |
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that did something I needed, I'd do 'apt-cache search'. On Gentoo I |
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usually end up going to Freshmeat or Google to find the package, and |
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then check to see whether there's an ebuild for it. This is not, in my |
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opinion, an ideal situation. It's particularly frustratring when just |
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getting started on Gentoo and trying to find all those tools you're |
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used to. |
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