From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EwY3O-0004Os-Ve for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:57:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0B4v3iu029984; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:57:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0B4tDV7004988 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:55:13 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EwY0u-0002IW-J2 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:55:12 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EwY0o-0001g8-JO for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:55:06 +0100 Received: from ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.97.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:55:06 +0100 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:55:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: packages without homepages Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:54:59 -0700 Organization: Organization? Only haphazardly. Message-ID: References: <1136952512.5741.5.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-97-182.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 8c6e4d9c-c12e-4405-a57d-ef50f4caf0fa X-Archives-Hash: 5b80c6d2cd3f7bfbedb9528780d3d840 Matthias Langer posted <1136952512.5741.5.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net>, excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:31 +0100: > After reading the response for bug 118607, which i filed, i was woundering > if there isn't a more appropriate default procedure for packages with no > homepages then just leaving the invalid 'homepage-link' alone ... > Shouldn't there be a way to tell portage that a certain package simply > doesn't have a homepage ? Matthias There was a recent thread on this, probably a month or two ago. Various devs offered various suggestions, most of which they've been using in packages they maintain. Apparently repoman complains if the variable isn't there, so devs simply put "none" or "" or "http://www.gentoo.org" or their dev page address as the homepage. Again, look around, you'll see these "solutions" and others, such as leaving the stale address in place as in the case at hand. There's was no single standard solution agreed to, as it appeared no one was sufficiently interested to push one, figuring more important things, like squashing real functionality bugs, was more important, with the limited time every Gentoo dev has, being they are all volunteers. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list