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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:12 +0000
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:53 +0100
"Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano M=C3=BCller <dev-zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Your oppinion?
>=20
> Would this be the right time to discuss about moving other variables
> to metadata.xml ? How about HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE ? Those
> hardly change and if they ever do we can restrict them to specific
> versions. I know there could be technical hurdles, but what do you
> think of the idea at least ?

At least LICENSE is no go, since the package manager needs it. Having
DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE available to the package manager even when XML
goes splat is probably useful too...

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Ciaran McCreesh

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