Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, paddy@panici.net wrote:
> does putting the info in the README entail the loss of the kind of
> structuring that would make it easy to, for example,
> programmatically display just the relevant text for a specific
> recommends?

Not necessarily if people agreed on a specific way to write such
things. Indeed, it's no different from trying to jam it into the
description, where you still have to have maintainers agreeing on a
specific way to write it.


Don Armstrong
 
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