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El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:37 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: |
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> On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:01:57 +0200 |
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> Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> > At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ".", would |
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> > you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman |
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> > warning? |
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> In my opinion, descriptions should not be sentences. Sentences |
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> in English not only need to end with a dot but also require a subject |
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> and a predicate. That makes them unnecessarily long, filled with |
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> useless information like repeated package name and obvious 'is', |
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> at least. |
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> So, rephrasing the example Alexandre pasted, consider: |
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> x11-libs/qt-core - The Qt toolkit is a comprehensive C++ application |
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> development framework. |
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> vs. |
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> x11-libs/qt-core - A comprehensive C++ application development framework |
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> Which one is better, in your opinion? |
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Well, I my case I would prefer second sentence... but it would still end |
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with a dot. But if it sounds rare for you, no problem. |