Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

[Holly Bostick]

Jonas Geiregat schreef:
> Fernando Canizo wrote:
>
>> El 25/ago/2005 a las 20:57 -0300, Holly me decía:
>>
>>
>>> conan@××××××××××.ar schreef:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>     one thing i miss from my previous debian system was the long
>>>> description that one can acces with 'apt-cache show <package>'.
>>>>
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Just saw this on the Wiki (Portage utilities not in Portage), and
>>> thought it might be something for you:
>>>
>>> tsportageview (forums) (sample-html-output) (download)
>>>
>>>    * Show descriptions of packages in a given portage category(-ies).
>>> It may use <longdescription> from metadata.xml files. The output can be
>>> coloured text (requires color package) or html with links towards
>>> package homepages.
>>>
>>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-350215-highlight-tsportageview.html
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> To point is should this be included in emerge or not ?

I don't personally need two extra lines of information; I usually find
the single line provided sufficiently clear to make a decision. If I
care enough to want to know more, I go to the website that is linked
with the description-- adding a couple of extra lines to a description
doesn't really make up for looking at the developer's ChangeLog, or the
status of the site (does development seem to be ongoing, or was the last
stable package created 4 years ago).

I don't see any need to say that this or some similar functionality
'should' be included in Portage (as if the lack of this functionality is
some serious lack in Portage), but if you do, submit an enhancement bug
and see what happens.

Holly

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