From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl. Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:15:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20150918161501.GA20440@thebird.nl> References: <55facbb7.XMIzNX9aIy6n26s1%pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> <87vbb9hsml.fsf@openmailbox.org> <20150918092333.GA18950@thebird.nl> <87fv2cvyxr.fsf@gnu.org> <20150918115115.GA19765@thebird.nl> <20150918140854.GA5145@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcyLW-0003Xz-KE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:17:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcyLR-0005PG-Il for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 12:17:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150918140854.GA5145@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Well, unless someone comes up with a 'proper' description I don't think we'll get anywhere. Tell me what you want to see. We can't explain the whole field of genetics in one line. Pj. On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 04:08:54PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Titles are meant to be short, so that they can be scanned easily. If someone doesn't know what it means, it's not > > going to be of interest anyway. > > That is not true: Until recently I did not know what mtp is (and I still > do not really know, actually...). Until I bought an android tablet that > requires it for data transfer. Time to test Ricardo's gmtp package, by > the way :-) If I were only interested in things I know, I would not > have much to do in my life ;-) > > And sometimes I see package names that sound interesting, so it is nice > to have a synopsis and description explaining a bit what it does. > > Andreas > --