From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 15 03:33:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E28E4106566B; Sun, 15 May 2011 03:33:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B2F8FC0A; Sun, 15 May 2011 03:33:40 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4F3XdhI002536; Sat, 14 May 2011 23:33:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4F3XdVG024834; Sat, 14 May 2011 23:33:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DCF4992.3010008@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 23:33:38 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <201105141806.p4EI6upK087278@repoman.freebsd.org> <4DCEEA98.4090300@FreeBSD.org> <4DCEF2E8.8060106@freebsd.org> <4DCEF864.50105@FreeBSD.org> <4DCF00A3.9090100@freebsd.org> <4DCF0210.2030303@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DCF0210.2030303@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: **OBSOLETE** CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 03:33:41 -0000 On 5/14/11 6:28 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 05/14/2011 15:22, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> pkg_info >> [-I] will truncate COMMENTs at 59 characters > > Then shouldn't that be the limit? "It's been done wrong for a long time" > isn't a good reason to keep doing it wrong, IMO. I agree, but I'm not sure pkg_info is the right way of doing things. Even with pkg_info's 59 character limit, some lines do wrap. I'd much rather authors be given the extra 10 characters to produce a more meaningful COMMENT (if they need it) than cut them short for the purposes of the one output of one tool; especially if people typically look at other tools/sites (which do not truncate) to learn about ports they want to install. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome