From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:32:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1501785164.30563.3.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3585822f-4db2-8c46-b037-cb84cb5bed6d@gentoo.org>
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On czw, 2017-08-03 at 14:21 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/03/2017 11:33 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > I would like to remove the ban on variable references in the HOMEPAGE
> > variable in ebuilds.
> >
>
> What ban are you referring to? The Portage Manager Specification doesn't
> say anything of the sort.
>
> Seriously though, whatever sort of tricks your opponents think they're
> doing with HOMEPAGE don't work. The HOMEPAGE can contain conditionals
> (i.e. dependency syntax), so grepping and copy/pasting are unreliable,
> and we should all continue doing whatever the heck we want.
This argument makes no sense. The dependency syntax requires a lot of
spaces which means clicking, copy-pasting and all other fancy stuff just
works™.
It's always nice when someone who doesn't do X tells those actually
doing X that their method doesn't work without any research to support
it.
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-03 15:33 [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 15:54 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-03 20:56 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 23:10 ` Sam Jorna
2017-08-03 17:21 ` Jonas Stein
2017-08-07 14:05 ` Kent Fredric
2017-08-03 18:21 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-03 18:32 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2017-08-03 18:57 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 19:12 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-03 19:39 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 19:56 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-03 20:46 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-03 22:33 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-08-04 3:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-04 6:50 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-04 13:43 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-08-04 14:02 ` Peter Stuge
2017-08-04 6:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-08-03 19:39 ` Ulrich Mueller
2017-08-03 19:34 ` Ulrich Mueller
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