On 5/14/11 6:28 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 05/14/2011 15:22, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> pkg_info >> [-I] will truncate COMMENTs at 59 characters > > Then shouldn't that be the limit? "It's been done wrong for a long time" > isn't a good reason to keep doing it wrong, IMO.
I agree, but I'm not sure pkg_info is the right way of doing things. Even with pkg_info's 59 character limit, some lines do wrap. I'd much rather authors be given the extra 10 characters to produce a more meaningful COMMENT (if they need it) than cut them short for the purposes of the one output of one tool; especially if people typically look at other tools/sites (which do not truncate) to learn about ports they want to install. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: [email protected] FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
