cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook book.sgml

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 5/14/11 6:28 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 05/14/2011 15:22, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> pkg_info
>> [-I] will truncate COMMENTs at 59 characters
> 
> Then shouldn't that be the limit? "It's been done wrong for a long time"
> isn't a good reason to keep doing it wrong, IMO.

I agree, but I'm not sure pkg_info is the right way of doing things.
Even with pkg_info's 59 character limit, some lines do wrap.  I'd much
rather authors be given the extra 10 characters to produce a more
meaningful COMMENT (if they need it) than cut them short for the
purposes of the one output of one tool; especially if people typically
look at other tools/sites (which do not truncate) to learn about ports
they want to install.

Joe

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