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From: Serkan Kaba <serkan@g.o>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:51:30 +0200
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Tomáš Chvátal yazmış:
> On Sunday 30 November 2008 14:23:48 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?
> I would rather see something like:
> 
> packagename/metadata.xml
> packagename/package-base.ebuild
I've been thinking of something like this for a long time. It would
greatly improve maintanance (we could put some common ebuild logic
there,too) and reduce the tree size.
> packagename/packagename-version.ebuild
> packagename/Manifest
> packagename/Changelog
> 
> Where package-base would store everything basic for the ebuild, licences and 
> so on, and in package-version would be only specific changes for the version 
> (for example patching Makefile).
> 
> Variables will be overridable this way and thus i think it would be nicer.
> 

- --
Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
Gentoo/Java
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[RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
-- Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
-- Tomáš Chvátal
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