Hi Tim Welcome to the community.
pkg.description is a longer version of pkg.summary. In OpenIndiana we use highlevel scripts to write these attributes. Looking at our standard templates under templates directory in oi-userland I see that they are not using any Property for the Description. But some components do. But it does not seem to translate into the final manifest. We have a documentation of these highlevel scripts under https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+with+oi-userland The scripts themselves are at https://github.com/openindiana/oi-userland Have a look around. I would say that if we use pkg.description additionally to pkg.summary then we would just need to fix oi-userland scripts. There are a lot of COMPONENT_DESCRITION variables already in oi-userland. It should stay optional though as The Disgners has designed the Property to be optional. Greetings Till On 01/11/19 08:08 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: > > All- > > I'm new to oi-dev, though I've been on oi-discuss for years and have done > a little bit with oi-userland in the past. > > My basic question is: Should we be including a package description > (pkg.description) in new packages we contribute, or should it > intentionally be left un-set? Currently, some packages have a > pkg.description, but many do not. I want to do it the "right" way, but > it's not clear to me which way that is. > > I've done some searching of the oi-dev archives, but I don't see any > threads that discuss pkg.description. > > Thanks, > > Tim _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev