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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:53:31 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: COMMENT in makefiles (Re: [wiz@netbsd.org: CVS commit: pkgsrc])
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 12:15:02PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> > Well, I don't agree there are good enough reasons to do it this
> > way..it seems gratuitously different and it makes the pkg-descr file
> > more difficult to read (comments often aren't very clear descriptions
> > because of size constraints).
>=20
> I did not mean that comment would replace description. I told that it cou=
ld be either
> a COMMENT: field at the end of pkg-descr or first introductory line of de=
scription.
> Following two examples illustrate my concept using real-world example:
> -----------------------
> This is bzip2, an advanced block-sorting file compressor.  It is
> believed to be free from any patents.
>=20
> WWW: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/
> COMMENT: A block-sorting file compressor
> -----------------------
> A block-sorting file compressor.
>=20
> Bzip2 is an advanced block-sorting file compressor.  It is
> believed to be free from any patents.
>=20
> WWW: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/
> -----------------------

Yeah, I understood what you meant, I still don't think it's the best
place for it.

Kris

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