Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)

[Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 23:38 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
> Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote:
> > 
> >>>> HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/"
> >>> That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for
> >>> clients trying to load the homepage.
> >> http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then.
> > 
> > Couldn't a page be created at this URL, with a notice that the package
> > has no real homepage?

> 
> I think that'd take too much time to create and maintain that sort of
> thing, especially once old packages are finally removed from the tree.

I think the suggestion is to have one generic homepage for all packages
without one, not a Gentoo-specific homepage for each project.

> Why not just stick in a message that says "This package has no
> homepage"? Or "none"? Is there any reason why that couldn't go into the
> HOMEPAGE="" variable? Will it break QA tools and other utilities?

I guess there are a bunch of tools out there that expect a URL in
HOMEPAGE, so providing one will not raise any potential
incompatibilities.

Hans

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