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From:  Tiziano =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= <dev-zero@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
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Denis Dupeyron wrote:

> On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano M=FCller <dev-zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Your oppinion?
>=20
> Would this be the right time to discuss about moving other variables
> to metadata.xml ? How about HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE ? Those
I'd rather like to see it in a new thread since it involves changes to th=
e
PMS.

> hardly change and if they ever do we can restrict them to specific
> versions. I know there could be technical hurdles, but what do you
> think of the idea at least ?
But it ties the ebuild closer to the metadata and if you get an ebuild
without HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE you don't have any information
about the package. I'd say that those vars are the minimal needed
information for a package and should therefore being kept in the ebuild
itself. But a longer description or a description in a different language
can always be kept in metadata.xml as it is possible already.


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