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

[Michael Crute]

Or you could use http://packages.gentoo.org/ or http://gentoo-portage.com both of which tend to provide decent information about the packages in portage.

-Mike

On 8/23/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:26:54 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| - why gentoo has decided that one line description is enough?

We don't.

| - it's possible to implement long descriptions? (i mean in the
|   political decision to do so, i know is technically viable with some
|   LONG_DESCRIPTION item in ebuilds)

Already there. Check metadata.xml. It supports long descriptions in
multiple languages.

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