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From: Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 11:22:42
Message-Id: 4A0FF37C.9030806@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > The devmanual also says "Where possible, try to keep lines no wider
3 > than 80 positions." which would limit DESCRIPTION to 66 characters.
4 >
5 > These are guidelines, not strict rules. Keep it shorter if it's
6 > reasonably possible.
7 >
8 Even guidelines should be consistent. If devmanual recommand <80 and
9 repoman <100, in my opinion, someone is wrong. repoman should recommand
10 <80 or devmanual should recommand <100. That's surely not a major issue
11 even far from that but having some consistency in those guidelines is a
12 minimum. IMHO, repoman should be updated to <80.
13
14 Mounir

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Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION size "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>