On 08/05/2013 01:10 PM, Michael Weber wrote:
> On 08/05/2013 01:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> It isn't a bad idea to still post on -dev.  Maintainers should be
>> removing the local definitions, and just because a decision seems like
>> the obviously-correct one doesn't mean that it is.
> Follow-up question: Should _I_ remove the identical local definitions as
> non-maint commit?
> 
> 12:38 AM, Michael Weber wrote:
>> "git - Enable git (version control system) support"
> 
> NO - different description :
> 
> app-admin/pass:git - Use dev-vcs/git for password revisions.
> app-editors/gedit-plugins:git - Shows document changes related to git's HEAD
> dev-util/metro:git - Enable support for git snapshots
> sys-devel/gettext:git - When running `autopoint`, use git to store the
> internal development files; this requires git at runtime, but will be
> faster/smaller than raw archives

don't change anything that looks only slightly different

I personally feel that descriptions should be as clear as possible. They
generic ones in use.desc often tell you nothing and are really only a
fallback.

> 
> YES - approx. same description:
> 
> app-portage/layman:git - Support dev-vcs/git based overlays
don't change
> dev-python/anyvc:git - Add support for Git
remove
> dev-qt/qt-creator:git - Add support for dev-vcs/git version control system
remove
> dev-util/monodevelop:git - Enable Git version control support
remove
> dev-vcs/cvs2svn:git - Support for dev-vcs/git
remove
> dev-vcs/fromcvs:git - Add support for conversion to dev-vcs/git repositories
don't change
> dev-vcs/rabbitvcs:git - Enable plugin for dev-vcs/git
don't change
> kde-base/dolphin-plugins:git - Enable support for the git VCS
remove
> xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin:git - Enable dev-vcs/git support
remove
> 


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