RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 16:51:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:10 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri November 21 2008, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > * System daemon that is a DBUS abstraction layer for package management
> > (too verbose)
> 
> I disagree that "Package management framework" would be a better summary 
> instead of above, because imho it is a useful information that it is a daemon 
> and uses DBUS.

Right, framework just sounded a more complete word than daemon. Maybe
"Package management service" might be a better name.

> > * XQilla is an XQuery and XPath 2.0 library, built on top of Xerces-C
> > (repeating the program name)
> 
> In contradiction to above, the reworked summary for this still contains all 
> the information. Here the alternative is a good improvement.

Right.

> Also all the differen summaries for media players above do not really provide 
> much information that allows to distinguish them, e.g. is the gstreamer based 
> media player or the player from Mozilla not feature rich or customizable? I 
> don't know, but the summary does not really help here.

I don't think it matters; the user will click on it and read the
description if they are that interested.

Richard.





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