From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:31:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051025203121.023a8df2@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435E8589.3060202@gentoo.org>
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:20:41 +0200 Krzysiek Pawlik
<nelchael@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Mike Frysinger wrote:
| > how can a blank HOMEPAGE be misleading ?
|
| Page is unknown, too lazy to search, what does empty HOMEPAGE exactly
| mean?
That there is no HOMEPAGE, in the same way that an empty DEPEND means
there are no dependencies, an empty IUSE means there are no used USE
flags and an empty SRC_URI means there are no download components.
For "unknown" or "too lazy" cases, the package shouldn't be in the tree.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-25 7:12 [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? Harald van Dijk
2005-10-25 17:58 ` Marco Morales
2005-10-25 18:35 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-10-25 19:15 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-10-25 19:20 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-10-25 19:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-10-25 19:54 ` Simon Stelling
2005-10-25 20:31 ` Carsten Lohrke
2005-10-26 12:04 ` Carsten Lohrke
2005-10-25 19:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 19:36 ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-10-25 19:51 ` Brian Harring
2005-10-25 19:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 20:23 ` Brian Harring
2005-10-25 19:56 ` Grant Goodyear
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