Re: Bug#166636: ITP: xfce4-utils -- Various tools for XFce
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:22:56AM -0600, Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> was heard to say:
> No, please put an actual, useful, description in *each* of the packages,
> along with details about what that particular package contains, and why
> I might want to install it. At present, none of the Debian package tools
> provide a good way to cross-reference stuff from the description.
It might be interesting to discuss a way to handle cross-references,
but I'm not convinced that would be a good idea anyway. Following
cross-references can be a nuisance and rather confusing, when we could
just have self-contained descriptions for every package.
Daniel
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