Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:17:58PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one source file
> > which have package descriptions like libfoo-dev = "dev files for libfoo",
> > libfoo-doc = "documention for libfoo", and libfoo = "runtime files for foo
> > library", without bothering to describe what "foo" actually is.
> >
> > well, duh! like nobody would ever guess that a package called libfoo-doc was
> > the documentation for libfoo. tell the reader something we DON'T know.
>
> But he knows what libfoo is - or at least he is just a
>
> $ apt-cache show libfoo
>
> away from that information. Do we need to duplicate the description of a
> library package in each and every supporting package?
Not all of it, but you can't object to duplicating a single sentence saying
what it is.
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