Quoting Vincent Lefevre (2015-01-12 16:51:39) > On 2015-01-09 14:56:14 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: >> 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. > > It was important for me. > >> Every extra line is only an extra byte, after all. > > But it is an extra line on the terminal, thus twice more scrolling, > and more chances to get "important" lines lost (the xterm buffer is > in term of lines, not bytes). There are multiple different issues. The original one raised in this thread was indeed about lines, not bytes. Guillem points to https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude%3A%3AParse-Description-Bullets%3Dtrue and I am sure Christian and other translators would be quite happy if someone improved the package translation tools to support that. > Note that the long list has a drawback even for "apt-cache search": > texlive-latex-extra matches on "apt-cache search svg pdf conver" only > because of the long list of unrelated things, not because the package > provides something related to conversion between SVG and PDF. If all > packages also provided extensive descriptions, there would be much > more uninteresting matches. Shortening package descriptions is not the solution to this issue, IMO. apt-cache is simple: does only exact hits and favors all hits equally. axi-cache (in package apt-xapian-index) find 13 packages and ranks the latex hits lowest with this command: axi-cache search svg pdf conver* - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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