RFC: Description text in packages

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Christopher Stone wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:34:33AM -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
>>> Putting feature lists in descriptions is stupid.  Obviously, you would
>>> have to update the description after each release which is stupid.  It
>>> is most likely that feature lists in descriptions are simply cut &
>>> paste jobs from an upstream web site which is stupid.
>>
>> I happen to think that it's reasonable to do this in some
>> circumstances -- where the upstream website author has written a good,
>> concise description of the package, and is clearly more familiar with
>> the package than the Fedora maintainer.  And in any case, what is
>> wrong with feature lists (even if they need to be updated)?  If
>> someone has gone to the effort of doing 'yum info package' then it's
>> quite likely they're interested in the features of that package.
>>
>> Rich.
>
> So, why not just go to the upstream website?  Spec file descriptions
> are not the place to look for feature lists...


Well, to be fair - 'yum search' does search description. So there are two 
ways of looking at this:

1. we can overload description with keywords, etc and then yum search can 
find them there. :(
2. we can work on the keyword additional metadata I talked about a month 
or so ago here.

-sv