Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?
Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:52:29
Message-Id:	`20050823224756.667089f1@snowdrop.home`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? by conan@lugmen.org.ar

1	On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:26:54 -0300 conan@××××××××××.ar wrote:
2	\| - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?
3
4	We don't.
5
6	\| - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the
7	\| political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some
8	\| LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds)
9
10	Already there. Check metadata.xml. It supports long descriptions in
11	multiple languages.
12
13	--
14	Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
15	Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
16	Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Subject	Author
Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?	Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com>