From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D482D139694 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 15:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F41CDE0ECA; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 15:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC52EE0EBC for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 15:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-it0-f41.google.com (mail-it0-f41.google.com [209.85.214.41]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADD1F3418B2 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 15:33:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-it0-f41.google.com with SMTP id 77so11027225itj.1 for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:33:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw113gTIT4i6LlNOsNrM2gty9U2N8yuuYqveLe1OZrlAb0C3dmzQHE +4pqGlJhXKo73U7feL7xb8jxkq6zFg== X-Received: by 10.36.170.7 with SMTP id b7mr2271241itf.10.1501774404775; Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:33:24 -0700 (PDT) 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 10.107.175.210 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 08:33:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Gilbert Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 11:33:04 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: f81cd4d9-bca4-4197-9744-7c0a15391329 X-Archives-Hash: 8f0461d02f4e3971a7b135438780c123 I would like to remove the ban on variable references in the HOMEPAGE variable in ebuilds. As I understand it, this ban was put in place so that people can easily copy/paste from an ebuild to a web browser. If people want to copy/paste the URL, they can easily query the final value using the portage API, or a tool written against it. % equery m www-client/chromium * www-client/chromium [gentoo] Maintainer: chromium@gentoo.org (Chromium in Gentoo Project) Upstream: None specified Homepage: http://chromium.org/ Location: /home/floppym/repos/gentoo/www-client/chromium Keywords: 59.0.3071.104:0: x86 Keywords: 60.0.3112.40:0: Keywords: 60.0.3112.78:0: amd64 Keywords: 61.0.3159.5:0: Keywords: 61.0.3163.13:0: ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86 License: BSD Allowing variables in HOMEPAGE would allow for easier copying of similar/identical ebuilds. For example, see the trivial ebuilds in my overlay below. https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/8b55fab291ec1f9be93ade9c91e7d62d7b8a259d/dev-go/cloudflare-go/cloudflare-go-0.7.4.ebuild https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/8b55fab291ec1f9be93ade9c91e7d62d7b8a259d/dev-go/pkg-errors/pkg-errors-0.8.0.ebuild https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/8b55fab291ec1f9be93ade9c91e7d62d7b8a259d/dev-go/urfave-cli/urfave-cli-1.19.1.ebuild