RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 13:09:21 UTC 2008
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:21:42 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Friday 21 November 2008, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > Leaving gnome-packagekit's current UI aside, is repeating the package
> > > name in summary something that people would rather not see done in any
> > > case? I tend to think that it'd be better to not repeat it myself. Just
> > > asking in case there's clear consensus on this - this is something that
> > > would be trivial to check in rpmlint.
> >
> > +1
>
> The consensus doesn't seem to be entirely clear but I added the check anyway
> in upstream rpmlint svn. Its output can always be filtered out later if
> needed.
There's a difference between
foo : Foo is a ...
and
foo : Clients and shared libraries for Foo
in particular for sub-packages and big package splits.
In other words, _starting_ the summary with the program name should
be avoided. Especially in Anaconda (but also other lists of packages)
where the N-V-R is displayed and cryptic already, it is much more readable
to present a summary that starts with what is contained within a package.
foo-1.0-4.fc10
Image viewer
bar-2.5-7.fc10
Text editor
fubar-0.9-0.3.rc3.fc10
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