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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:52:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21465.59306.929852.815670@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140730200748.GA18377@linux1>

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>>>>> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, William Hubbs wrote:

> 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.

That's one of the places where our policy is stricter than PMS.
The devmanual says clearly that HOMEPAGE is mandatory, except for
virtuals.

Ulrich

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-07-31  6:52 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
2014-07-31  6:52         ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]

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