On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:07:46AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Anyway, one liner "snob" descriptions just have to go. > > $ apt-cache show emacs21 > Description: The GNU Emacs editor > GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. > > Oops, I see, it is self-documenting.
that's actually a perfectly adequate description. it tells someone who has never heard of emacs before that it is an editor. good enough. a description doesn't have to (and shouldn't!) summarise all of a package's features, all it needs to do is give someone a rough idea of what kind of beastie it is. for a package like emacs, it's basically impossible to summarise all of its features anyway. craig