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). 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. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150112155139.ga31...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr