On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:36:34 +0100
hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> You were proposing that I strip down the DESCRIPTION field in my
> ebuild and put the keywords relevant for finding the package into
> <longdescription> in tag metadata.xml.
No, I was proposing the overly long description should go to
<longdescription />. As for the DESCRIPTION variable, it looks like it
can be shortened easily.
<<<Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a role-playing roguelike game of
exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons
>>>Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - a roguelike RPG dungeon crawler
Since it appears to be an actual roguelike (and not merely a game with
permadeath as is how these days people interpret it) you could actually
get it down to: "Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - a dungeon crawler".
> That leads to the question how do you read the longdescription field
> from metadata.xml via eix or other commonly used tools for finding
> packages. packages.gentoo.org doesn't allow it either.
packages.g.o simply links to metadata.xml. I guess that works.
jer
