From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: bug#34828: psmisc description vague Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:48:27 +0100 Message-ID: <874l867rus.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34983) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h45Bn-0005Ls-DI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:49:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h45Bm-0007Oj-Mk for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:49:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56906) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h45Bm-0007OO-G1 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:49:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h45Bm-0002BF-BK for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:49:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: (mikadoZero's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:15:05 -0400") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: mikadoZero Cc: 34828@debbugs.gnu.org Hi, mikadoZero skribis: > The description for the psmisc package would be more helpful if it > listed the utilities that it included. As it is I do not know what I > will get after installing. > > An example of a description that is more helpful is procps. I would recommend against turning descriptions into lists of commands just for the sake of package search (we should instead have another mechanism to determine which package provides a given command), but listing key commands is useful for a package like this one. Would you like to propose a patch? Ludo=E2=80=99.