Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 17:49:41 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: excessively long DESCRs Message-ID: <199610120049.RAA22017@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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The file pkg/DESCR is supposed to be (quoting from the handbook):
===
This is a longer description of the port. One to a few paragraphs
concisely explaining what the port does is sufficient. Note: This is
not a manual nor an in-depth description on how to use or compile the
port. In particular, please do not just copy the README file here,
unless, of course, it is a concise description of the port.
===
I attached a list of files that are longer than 24 lines to this mail,
please see if you can make them nice and concise.
Satoshi
P.S. Of course, 24 is an arbitrary number, but recent studies show
that the reason why DEC chose 24 for the number of lines in their
VT100 terminal was because average people can't sustain their
interest longer than that many numbers of lines.
P.P.S. There are DESCRs that seem to be too short, too.
P.P.P.S. Of course one of the above is a joke. (Just some obvious
junk to make my message 24 lines long.)
===
1036 math/oleo/pkg/DESCR
415 lang/expect/pkg/DESCR
254 x11/xview-lib/pkg/DESCR
254 x11/xview-config/pkg/DESCR
254 x11/xview-clients/pkg/DESCR
238 emulators/pcemu/pkg/DESCR
222 lang/forth/pkg/DESCR
197 www/kaffe/pkg/DESCR
186 audio/maplay/pkg/DESCR
183 graphics/netpbm/pkg/DESCR
181 lang/gnat/pkg/DESCR
155 x11/iv/pkg/DESCR
146 sysutils/socket/pkg/DESCR
134 mail/exmh/pkg/DESCR
118 net/rdist6/pkg/DESCR
105 emulators/cpmemu/pkg/DESCR
99 security/ssh/pkg/DESCR
97 math/lapack/pkg/DESCR
97 devel/mprof/pkg/DESCR
82 games/xkobo/pkg/DESCR
82 games/xchomp/pkg/DESCR
69 x11/xfm/pkg/DESCR
68 misc/amanda/pkg/DESCR
68 lang/modula-3/pkg/DESCR
65 lang/rexx-imc/pkg/DESCR
64 sysutils/afio/pkg/DESCR
64 graphics/hpscan/pkg/DESCR
61 lang/Gofer/pkg/DESCR
58 lang/msqlperl/pkg/DESCR
53 math/calc/pkg/DESCR
51 games/yamsweeper/pkg/DESCR
50 games/xmine/pkg/DESCR
50 devel/prcs/pkg/DESCR
49 print/xtexshell/pkg/DESCR
49 net/rmsg/pkg/DESCR
48 security/donkey/pkg/DESCR
48 net/wide-dhcp/pkg/DESCR
48 math/fudgit/pkg/DESCR
48 cad/acs/pkg/DESCR
48 benchmarks/bytebench/pkg/DESCR
47 archivers/ha/pkg/DESCR
45 x11/tkgoodstuff/pkg/DESCR
45 x11/FWF/pkg/DESCR
45 www/mapedit/pkg/DESCR
45 graphics/xanim/pkg/DESCR
44 security/xinetd/pkg/DESCR
44 misc/team/pkg/DESCR
43 net/scotty/pkg/DESCR
43 lang/guile-iii/pkg/DESCR
42 editors/axe/pkg/DESCR
41 emulators/hfs/pkg/DESCR
40 plan9/Xg/pkg/DESCR
39 games/xonix/pkg/DESCR
38 net/dip/pkg/DESCR
38 misc/cal/pkg/DESCR
38 emulators/mtools/pkg/DESCR
37 x11/xcb/pkg/DESCR
37 math/xlispstat/pkg/DESCR
37 devel/gcc11/pkg/DESCR
36 net/zircon/pkg/DESCR
35 print/ghostscript/pkg/DESCR
35 net/wu-ftpd/pkg/DESCR
34 plan9/rc/pkg/DESCR
33 print/musixtex/pkg/DESCR
33 databases/gnats/pkg/DESCR
33 audio/rplay/pkg/DESCR
32 lang/scm/pkg/DESCR
31 net/gnu-finger/pkg/DESCR
31 comms/ecu/pkg/DESCR
30 x11/xfedor/pkg/DESCR
30 math/gnuplot/pkg/DESCR
30 cad/chipmunk/pkg/DESCR
29 editors/uemacs/pkg/DESCR
29 comms/xcept/pkg/DESCR
28 x11/xloadimage/pkg/DESCR
28 print/ghostview/pkg/DESCR
28 news/knews/pkg/DESCR
28 benchmarks/netperf/pkg/DESCR
28 archivers/freeze/pkg/DESCR
27 misc/linuxls/pkg/DESCR
27 misc/buffer/pkg/DESCR
27 lang/icon/pkg/DESCR
27 japanese/mnews/pkg/DESCR
27 graphics/xbmbrowser/pkg/DESCR
27 graphics/gimp/pkg/DESCR
27 devel/m4/pkg/DESCR
26 print/virtualpaper/pkg/DESCR
26 misc/xephem/pkg/DESCR
26 japanese/Wnn/pkg/DESCR
26 games/xevil/pkg/DESCR
26 editors/uzap/pkg/DESCR
25 www/wwwish/pkg/DESCR
25 www/cached/pkg/DESCR
25 print/apsfilter/pkg/DESCR
25 lang/eiffel/pkg/DESCR
25 japanese/mule-sj3/pkg/DESCR
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