From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SrYkB-000558-3r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:13:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2529FE06D7; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:12:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81D3E065A for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbrr13 with SMTP id rr13so3293085pbb.40 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:11:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=hhWJ4zYG0DLwcwbHd0JBv0ROlZ2Y/GXa1t+5JVBBG5Q=; b=O+Xb+CdWtqIRoGm35Npp8G2f1MB5cBTyjRRuXpOB7qoJV+JdCrvv2X04yJTNK9YcgY QINnQxWueQ2Vu51Fq7eONQ1FBS+M0qcae8nBSN4Xc7k8CuYfNUmVlVWho91ux2v/WVIT k8iZbY+oM/aYeuJ9/O1/8eMB5Ao1FOSb8kBjQUyY3thKUp0ILUs57mJRKq4zACeP4uZr WbJO4iUae3jlbRxnA11wVMxIVvV5pWj9TugmuZApF1qRu+IbRYxM34cthbDpWbdLB/yo 6NX7+wfe0SoPkN/VU0sBaS91LRKWGE+C+u+1/IIu1/21JSOec1pc5DA5bvjMhmhaG4ug 9sqg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.221.72 with SMTP id qc8mr10294442pbc.63.1342635060905; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: davidepesa@gmail.com Received: by 10.66.41.51 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:11:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20486.63521.223740.628410@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:11:00 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: gcoNPaTwigowB4paBRJN2ylV0SA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds? From: Davide Pesavento To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 94bf3331-e0cc-46af-b806-818ddb30480c X-Archives-Hash: 36a506eb8c252dce41c4ab86baac2a61 On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Robin H. Johnson 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