From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUUd4-0007gX-8X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:38:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PJbqIl002444; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:37:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9PJa49F007859 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:36:04 GMT Received: from c83-251-211-193.bredband.comhem.se ([83.251.211.193]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EUUaa-0002jd-5N for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:36:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? From: "Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051025202225.506126ae@snowdrop.home> References: <20051025071242.GA10312@gentoo.org> <20051025175810.GA16023@toucan.gentoo.org> <435E7AE8.9010200@gentoo.org> <20051025202225.506126ae@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-nTRGpQmqiF0G1SASVdsQ" Organization: Gentoo Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:36:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1130268962.1491.1.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: 9f8a53e2-8cf6-4f76-aea5-24911387440d X-Archives-Hash: 3a0b4ab2bd03837d3c855f2080493b71 --=-nTRGpQmqiF0G1SASVdsQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:35:20 +0200 Krzysiek Pawlik > wrote: > | Marco Morales wrote: > | > I think "none" could be the better workaround imho. > |=20 > | I vote for "none" too :) It clearly states, that HOMEPAGE is missing. > | Blank HOMEPAGE is misleading. >=20 > 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. //Spider --=20 begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --=-nTRGpQmqiF0G1SASVdsQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDXokhZS9CZTi033kRAmfEAJ92ZudboJ06ov3KgpeUnIjwBdnGtQCfRsvj E4K7huQUxrrA0brvUekIo0s= =3yQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nTRGpQmqiF0G1SASVdsQ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list