[Slapt-get-devel] slapt-src: suggestion

Jason Woodward woodwardj at jaos.org
Tue Aug 2 17:10:18 EDT 2011


Hi Igor,

>  Can you make slapt-src --show recognize name:version notation? E.g.
> `slapt-src --show tp_smapi:0.40`.

Yeah, good idea.  

http://software.jaos.org/git/slapt-src/commit/?id=598a8bcded03f85cfcc9af78e
0b56718a9eb614d

>  Also I propose changing 'SLACKBUILD SHORT DESCRIPTION' in
slackbuilds_data
> to 'SLACKBUILD DESCRIPTION', so user can see full description of the
> package if he wants to. May be slapt-src could show short description on
> `slapt-src --show` and full description on `slapt-src --show --verbose`.
Or
> alternatively slapt-src could fetch full description from remote server
if
> something like --verbose specified on a command line. At present I forced

> to do awful things -- if I don't understand what the package for from
short
> description, I open my web browser and go to ftp://ftp.slackbuilds.org/
> looking for corresponding slack-desc and READMEs. I think it is better to

> get full package description from slapt-src itself.

That does suck.  I'll see what I can do.


take care,
jason
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Jason Woodward


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