Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:49:27
Message-Id: 20080119194912.3ccb9ef1@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 46: Allow upstream tags in metadata.xml by Denis Dupeyron
1 On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:53 +0100
2 "Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Jan 19, 2008 2:07 PM, Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote:
4 > > Your oppinion?
5 >
6 > Would this be the right time to discuss about moving other variables
7 > to metadata.xml ? How about HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION and LICENSE ? Those
8 > hardly change and if they ever do we can restrict them to specific
9 > versions. I know there could be technical hurdles, but what do you
10 > think of the idea at least ?
11
12 At least LICENSE is no go, since the package manager needs it. Having
13 DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE available to the package manager even when XML
14 goes splat is probably useful too...
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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