On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:55:23PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > I don't know about this. There's no "72 col for DESCR" rule in ports. > I think 72 was mainly a common value because it allows a couple of ">" > quotes for news/email without flowing past 80 cols.
That makes sense. portcheck only checks that lines in DESCR are < 80. Should we tweak the porters' guide? Index: faq/ports/guide.html =================================================================== RCS file: /work/cvsroot/www/faq/ports/guide.html,v retrieving revision 1.34 diff -p -u -r1.34 guide.html --- faq/ports/guide.html 3 Dec 2014 11:54:42 -0000 1.34 +++ faq/ports/guide.html 19 Mar 2015 21:07:23 -0000 @@ -450,9 +450,9 @@ article altogether.</b> <br><br><li> Put a longer description of the port into <tt>pkg/DESCR</tt>. One to a few paragraphs concisely explaining what the port does is sufficient. -It is also advised to wrap your lines at 72 characters. +It is also advised to wrap your lines at 80 characters. This can be done by first editing the <tt>DESCR</tt> file and then running it -through <tt><b>fmt -w 72</b></tt>. +through <tt><b>fmt -w 80</b></tt>. <br><br><li> If the application needs to create a user or a group, choose the lowest free
