On Saturday 05 January 2008, Petteri Räty wrote: > Petteri Räty kirjoitti: > > Current devmanual suggest to not use line lengths over 80 characters. > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html > > > > I wrote a repoman check that checks that the value doesn't go over 80. > > This is useful for tools like eix that show the DESCRIPTION. The thing > > is that lots of ebuilds will fail this currently. Do you think we should > > use a higher limit like 100? qualudis seems to use 120 currently. > > Seems devmanual is currently putting the limit to 80 too. > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html > > DESCRIPTION A short (less than 80 characters) description of the > package's purpose.
it's always been highly recommended that the DESCRIPTION be a short string, but there has never been a hard limit. if you want to have repoman warn upon large strings (over 100 chars), that's fine, but there should be no hard limit anywhere. -mike
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