On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:35:20 +0200 Krzysiek Pawlik
> <nelchael@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | Marco Morales wrote:
> | > I think "none" could be the better workaround imho.
> | 
> | I vote for "none" too :) It clearly states, that HOMEPAGE is missing.
> | Blank HOMEPAGE is misleading.
> 
> Then any automated tools will need to be told explicitly that "none" is
> something special. With all HOMEPAGE entries being fully qualified URIs,
> you can just do something like for h in HOMEPAGE ; do firefox "$h" & ;
> done , which works just fine in multiple and blank homepage cases...


I agree with Ciaran here.  exporting the explicitly empty variable is a
good thing.  If, however the variable is unset completely, then we have
an issue of laziness on a developers part.


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