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From: Serkan Kaba <serkan@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:51:37
Message-Id: 49329A62.8070804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future by "Tomáš Chvátal"
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4 Tomáš Chvátal yazmış:
5 > On Sunday 30 November 2008 14:23:48 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
6 >> I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepage
7 >> in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) and we
8 >> get rid of the variable for the next EAPI version?
9 > I would rather see something like:
10 >
11 > packagename/metadata.xml
12 > packagename/package-base.ebuild
13 I've been thinking of something like this for a long time. It would
14 greatly improve maintanance (we could put some common ebuild logic
15 there,too) and reduce the tree size.
16 > packagename/packagename-version.ebuild
17 > packagename/Manifest
18 > packagename/Changelog
19 >
20 > Where package-base would store everything basic for the ebuild, licences and
21 > so on, and in package-version would be only specific changes for the version
22 > (for example patching Makefile).
23 >
24 > Variables will be overridable this way and thus i think it would be nicer.
25 >
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27 - --
28 Sincerely,
29 Serkan KABA
30 Gentoo/Java
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