The DESCRIPTION element is required exactly once for each PCK element. This should give a more detailed description of the package than TITLE attribute.

The description should be detailed enough to give the person installing the archive enough information to decide whether to install the package. As a result, it is not terribly helpful to set the description to the same as the package title. As a rule of thumb, the description should be two to ten lines in length.

While the value of the TITLE attribute is shown in the package list on the container page, the content of the DESCRIPTION element appears in a tooltip control ("fly-over help") when the user moves the mouse over the package title in the container.

In between the <DESCRIPTION> and </DESCRIPTION> tags, you must specify the package description that should be displayed.

Example:

<DESCRIPTION>This package contains the main executables and cannot be deselected.</DESCRIPTION>

The opening <DESCRIPTION> tag has no attributes.