From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3918139694 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E770E0F31; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:13:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 407EAE0F27 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:13:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F7703417A0 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 19:13:02 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <3585822f-4db2-8c46-b037-cb84cb5bed6d@gentoo.org> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <1991270a-482d-28f0-4834-8308b4c27351@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 15:12:59 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3bdbc2aa-3f04-470e-bf44-23a648a47863 X-Archives-Hash: d02ff1afdec194c795cfa78540c67354 On 08/03/2017 02:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > It's in the devmanual, which imposes gentoo-specific policy on top of PMS. > It would be nice if that were true, but there's a lot of junk and/or personal preference documented in the devmanual, and a lot of actual-policy that's still missing because it can't get past review. This looks like it was tacked on for fun as part of the devrel handbook merger: https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/commit/c97aec7f7e236bc917067763916530bfa05d6e31 (The old handbook never mentioned variables, from what I can see.)