Re: length of a package extended description
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The blank lines are not the only problem. Removing them would be a big
> step forward, but the description would actually still be much too
> long (more than 900 lines).
Lines aren't really the issue here; the primary one is space in the
Packages file[1], and the secondary one is utility for users.
Every extra line is only an extra byte, after all.
It would probably be ideal if there was a better way of indicating which
latex modules were in each texlive package than currently, but until a
better method is found, this is probably the best of bad options.
1: By that I mean if we're going to make an arbitrary line in the sand
in policy, it should be based on bytes, not lines.
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