Hi Manuel, On 2012-08-07 15:21, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > "aptitude show" removes them. > > IMO, dots are an artifact to glue description paragraphs together, > because of requirements of the syntax of the files. What would happen > if it was decided to have 1-line descriptions, and substitute new > lines with the character "|"? Descriptions wouldn't be very readable. > > Of course, these dots don't have the same nasty effect on readability, > but in my opinion they are not part of the description itself but of > the formatting, and thus they should be removed in user-oriented > operations.
Hm, yeah, that make some sense. > Of course, all of this is pretty low priority, consider ignoring it if > you don't think that it should be changed. I think I can create a configuration option for that since I believe there are use cases when it's important to output the description unmodified. Indeed, not high priority, but the bug stays open so I don't forget. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
