[csw-maintainers] [csw-devel] SF.net SVN: gar:[8215] csw/mgar/gar/v2

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Roger Håkansson <hson at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On 2010-01-29 17:29, Philip Brown wrote:
>>
>> It's something like 32, yah. However, that being said, having
>> super-long package names looks very ugly in system level outputs (eg:
>> pkginfo), so we discourage it :) the "software name" is supposed to be
>> the informative one anyway.
>
> (Follow-up on a old topic due to the fact that I ran into problem today
> relating to it)
> Given that, is there any reason why "software name" also is restricted to 20
> chars?

same reason. for sanity reasons, we need to have a limit somewhere. so
both pkgname and software name are limited in the same way.