[gentoo-dev] Re: DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Kent Fredric posted on Sat, 15 Sep 2012 23:52:16 +1200 as excerpted:

> If the usecase for this is "Sometimes people will want to write an
> ebuild and not provide a description at all, and don't care that its not
> useful",
> then it shoudn't be supported by a nasty hack in the parent eclass,
> Portage should instead support a missing DESCRIPTION feature.

Ciaranm already posted this link, from an earlier discussion, that 
describes why that thing's there.  It's legacy and it /should/ be gotten 
rid of I think most would agree (I certainly do as a user; it's a hassle 
and an eyesore).  Only nobody has cared to take on the responsibility of 
double-checking to make sure removing it doesn't break anything and of 
fixing anything they miss if it does anyway, so there the cruft still 
sits.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/78813/

Bottom line, I doubt there'd be any complaints if those lines 
"disappeared", as long as anything broken in the process equally 
magically just "got fixed".

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