Let's add variant descriptions

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 30, 2007, at 10:04, Elias Pipping wrote:

> On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> It's annoying that "port search" shows description, but "port  
>> info" only shows long_description.
>
> Isn't that precisely what description and long_description were  
> made for?

Is it? I don't know.

It seemed to me that "port info" should show more info -- should show  
everything you can see with "port search" and then some. Nothing that  
you can see with "port search" (i.e. the (short) description) should  
be omitted.

Though I have seen some portfiles that set the description and  
long_description to the same thing, so those would look silly in  
"port info" if it were changed to show both strings.

Though these ports currently already look silly in "port info"  
because it prints curly braces around the long description. For example:


$ port info p5-archive-tar
p5-archive-tar 1.30, perl/p5-archive-tar (Variants: universal)
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Tar/

{Creation and in-memory manipulation of tar files}

Library Dependencies: perl5.8, p5-io-zlib, p5-text-diff
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