[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev47598 - build/jam/repositories/HaikuPorts
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:21:30 +0200
On 29/07/2014 22:15, François Revol wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 29/07/2014 22:06, Stephan Aßmus wrote:
>> This is beyond lazy and IMHO unacceptable. Cleaning up the repository to
>> fix useless package descriptions will be no fun, most likely it will
>> never get done. These have to be sensible from the moment a package is
>> first made available.
>>
>> When I search for stuff and stumble across one of these packages, I want
>> to know exactly what it is and what it is good for, and I assume I am
>> not the only one. To get an idea of what the description of
>> libpthread-stubs should have been, see
>>
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/6.3/general/libpthread-stubs.html
>>
>> Please update the packages with proper information about them. I don't
>> want to google the package name when the description should have been
>> right there in the package.
>
> For all the things I added recently always I looked up the gentoo ebuild
> for the summary and added a proper description from the website as well.
>
> Those I added long ago when trying to get libXpm building and I suppose
> I ended up angry at the shitload of useless dependencies just for libXpm.
Actually according to git I'm not the one to blame for the lame
descriptions anyway :-D
François.
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