On 09/15/2012 08:06 AM, Duncan wrote: > Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina posted on Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:43:42 -0400 as > excerpted: > >> If anyone wants to explain to me why that DESCRIPTION line is so >> critical that it must exist yet not important enough to put something >> worthwhile in I'm all ears. Until that point I'll probably keep bringing >> this up. > > Did you read the up-thread link Ciaran posted? > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/78813/ > > IOW, it's legacy. They could probably "disappear", if anybody was > willing to spend the time investigating, then fixing anything that broke > when the lines "disappeared". But it's simply easier to go with "don't > fix what's not broken", and just leave it be. Let someone else take that > risk. > > But as long as any breakage "magically disappeared" to wherever the > DESCRIPTIONs went, I don't expect there'd be many complaints...
I've gone ahead and removed them. I can't imagine that it will break anything. After the change, all of the ebuilds still have non-empty DESCRIPTION metadata. -- Thanks, Zac
