On Sunday, 23 November 2008 at 14:09, Michael Schwendt wrote: > 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. -1 > 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 > Download accellerator +1 Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
