These descriptions are not meaningful IMO. I'd like to see them have a good description. gs-sources is a great example; it details applied patches, etc. The "Gentoo Kernel" or "Gentoo gaming-optimized kernel" is very vague; it would be helpful to the end-user to decide between various kernels if they could tell the difference without wading through patches. The maintainers would be in the best position to improve these descriptions, as they're (hopefully) most knowledgeable about what's in their kernels. $ emerge -s gentoo-sources Searching... [ Results for search key : gentoo-sources ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-kernel/gentoo-sources Latest version available: 2.4.20-r5 Latest version installed: 2.4.20-r5 Size of downloaded files: 30,816 kB Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.kernel.org/ Description: Full sources for the Gentoo Kernel. $ emerge -s gaming-sources Searching... [ Results for search key : gaming-sources ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-kernel/gaming-sources Latest version available: 2.4.20-r5 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 28,547 kB Homepage: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Description: Full sources for the Gentoo gaming-optimized kernel $ emerge -s gs-sources Searching... [ Results for search key : gs-sources ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-kernel/gs-sources Latest version available: 2.4.21_rc8 Latest version installed: 2.4.21_rc6 Size of downloaded files: 33,692 kB Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ Description: This kernel stays up to date with current kernel -pres, with recent acpi,evms,win3lin ,futexes,aic79xx, superfreeswan,preempt/ll, and various hw fixes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
nice to hear you opinion. however, i do not see me making the description(s) much different than what you see currently.. we have documentation that is being improved here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml and there is always info in the changelog.
Shouldn't that read win4lin, not win3lin in the gs-sources description?
Just noticed this, the spacing and commas are kind of erratic in the description as well.
