From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:07:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140730200748.GA18377@linux1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHY5Mecx=ELH8JQyYw3i-_AxQbfj5goQQw+SZPH_T4xawMki-g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:20:12PM -0500, Gordon Pettey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On 21/07/14 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ?
> > It is not very informative.
> >
> The wiki page is equivalently informative. What's the point of metadata
> that just says "there's no metadata"?
I'm just picking a random message to respond to.
I just noticed in PMS that HOMEPAGE is an optional variable, so we
really don't need a default home page at all. It seems completely legit
for an ebuild to not even define the HOMEPAGE variable.
William
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-30 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 16:22 [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website Manuel Rüger
2014-07-21 17:38 ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-07-21 17:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2014-07-21 22:06 ` Alexander Berntsen
2014-07-21 23:20 ` Gordon Pettey
2014-07-21 23:53 ` Manuel Rüger
2014-07-30 20:07 ` William Hubbs [this message]
2014-07-31 6:52 ` Ulrich Mueller
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