On Wednesday 01 April 2009 14:30:44 Mikko Varri wrote: > Hi admins, > > > I was under the impression that the handy ruler in slack-desc file was > related to how much space there is in the ncurses installer UI > (i.e. it would always be of the same length). But looking at the > changes made to submitted slack-desc files, it seems that the longer > the PRGNAM, the shorter the handy ruler. > > That basically means that "compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported" has > about three hundred characters less space for the description, when > compared to "di". > > I took a quick look at the slackware source directory, and 513 out of > 529 slack-desc files had the same length handy ruler. I would > consider the remaining 16 as (cosmetic) bugs. Same check agains SBo > repository shows that there only about 66 percent had the same length. > > I appreciate that this is your repository, and you can do whatever you > wish with it, but what is the policy on this tiny detail? > > > BR, > Mikko Varri
Mikko, The handy ruler should be 72 characters long, as far as the policy we should be doing it like Slackware. The compiz* ones are wrong and will be fixed with the next update to them. --dsomero _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - http://slackbuilds.org/faq/
