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From:  Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Subject: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE
 (per bug 239268)
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"Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org> posted
b41005390810051952i93eafb0r5a0ca7e31a34574c@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:52:48 -0700:

> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> HOMEPAGE=3D"http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/"
>>
> That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for
> clients trying to load the homepage.

I like Thilo's suggestion -- modified a bit and with the caveat that such=
=20
a page is actually created, with some generic details explaining that no=20
other homepage could be found and how Gentoo handles such cases (a link=20
to the DMCA/copyright notification page may be helpful as a CYA, this=20
being written assuming Gentoo has one, I've not checked but if we don't=20
it could save a LOT of trouble if someone makes a mistake...), and=20
encouraging anyone who comes across a homepage for such a package to bug=20
it.

The modification bit would be to make it a new page on an existing=20
subdomain.  Something like this:  http://www.gentoo.org/no-homepage.xml

It could be made per-project or the like, too, but that makes it more=20
difficult to auto-detect, for anyone/anything that desires to.

--=20
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