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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?
From: Davide Pesavento <pesa@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:53:37PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven
>> variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, and
>> IUSE, even if their value is empty.
>>
>> Could we drop this requirement? Repoman already enforces that
>> DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, LICENSE, SLOT, and KEYWORDS are non-empty
>> (with some exceptions for virtuals). I don't see why we need to
>> distinguish the "empty value" and "not assigned" cases.
>>
>> For example, many live ebuilds already don't define SRC_URI. I'm not
>> aware of any problems caused by this.
> +1 from me.
>
++
Thanks,
Pesa