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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:07:55 -0700
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepage
> in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) and we
> get rid of the variable for the next EAPI version?

For that matter, whatever is decided, why not include "DESCRIPTION"?
This seems to me a candidate for something that does not change version
to version (or at least shouldn't - since there is only one displayed,
e.g., in emerge --search).

						-Joe


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