Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 19:34:10 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: Bapt <bapt@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml Message-ID: <4DD84BF2.20207@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4DD3EAFD.20905@FreeBSD.org> References: <201105141806.p4EI6upK087278@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DCEEA98.4090300@FreeBSD.org> <800a75fbf37a5bf34858274adf2b5cb5.squirrel@mail.experts-exchange.com> <4DD3E493.8010201@freebsd.org> <4DD3EAFD.20905@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/18/11 11:51 AM, Alex Dupre wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke ha scritto: >> That makes sense, but given that we have other tools and sites that >> provide port information, is it better to recommend the shorter COMMENT >> that may not be sufficient to give a port intro, or should we opt for a >> slightly longer string? How will pkgng handle this? > > Read it in this way: is it better to have a useless pkg_info COMMENT > because it's truncated, or a nicer web page displaying ten additional > characters and probably a link to the pkg-descr? IMHO if you are looking > for a detailed description you have to look at pkg-descr in any way, 70 > chars instead of 60 don't make a difference, but a truncated comment is > like a 0-chars comment. This is my opinion of course. > Yes, a detailed description requires pkg-descr regardless. However, I have frequently used those extra 10 characters to provide a meaningful COMMENT. Such a COMMENT may entice me to read pkg-descr. It sounds like pkgng is going to be structured so that the COMMENT length won't matter. IF that is the case, I'm inclined to leave the 70 char recommendation as-is since, again, people have been basing COMMENT on portlint. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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