On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:35:28PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > aptitude can be configured to do that. It is a bit of a catch-22, isn't > it? I think this is a case of "don't do that, then". Why should we make it needlessly difficult to write good descriptions? The short description is only one line, so there's no pressing need to suppress it when showing the long description. Richard Braakman