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>>>>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Aaron W Swenson wrote: |
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> On 2017-11-27 10:54, Duncan wrote: |
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>> While there is no hard restriction on the length of short-name, |
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>> limiting it to 20 characters is strongly recommended. |
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> Does it matter if people notice the recommendation? Should it be its |
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> own paragraph for emphasis? |
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I guess that the devmanual section will be read more often, so I'll |
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prepare a patch for it when (and if) the GLEP changes are accepted: |
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https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/news/index.html |
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That it currently has just "name" rather than "very short name" (as in |
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the GLEP) doesn't help, I suppose. |
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Ulrich |
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