Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: length of the DESCRIPTION variable

[Petteri Räty]

Petteri Räty kirjoitti:

Current devmanual suggest to not use line lengths over 80 characters.
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html

I wrote a repoman check that checks that the value doesn't go over 80.


Regards,
Petteri

This is useful for tools like eix that show the DESCRIPTION. The thing is that lots of ebuilds will fail this currently. Do you think we should use a higher limit like 100? qualudis seems to use 120 currently.

Seems devmanual is currently putting the limit to 80 too.

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html



Regards,
Petteri

DESCRIPTION A short (less than 80 characters) description of the package's purpose.

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