[Nix-dev] Package descriptions

[Eelco Dolstra]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> FWIW, most of the package descriptions I've written so far are sentences
> ending with a period, i.e., they look like "long descriptions" rather
> than one-line descriptions.  Surely we want two separate attributes.
> How about adding `longDescription'?

Yes, good idea.

> That said, the new attribute should be exploited by some of the tools
> (web page generation?  `nix-env'?), otherwise there's little incentive
> to use it.  What do you propose?

There already is "nix-env -qa --xml --meta" which shows all meta attributes. 
Not very user-friendly though :-)

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