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From: Jonas Geiregat <yux@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:49:54
Message-Id: 430B4484.5010306@sdf-eu.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? by conan@lugmen.org.ar
1 conan@××××××××××.ar wrote:
2
3 >The questions would be:
4 >- why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?
5 >- it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the
6 > political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some
7 > LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds)
8 >
9 >
10 I think it's political correct to add this option to emerge,
11 technically I would use the package metadata.xml file which contains a
12 less brief explenation on what's the package about.
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