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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@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 16:08:00
Message-Id: 4932BA5B.2080307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future by flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
1 Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > I have a very quick proposal: why don't we move the packages' homepage
3 > in metadata.xml (since it's usually unique for all the versions) and we
4 > get rid of the variable for the next EAPI version?
5
6 For that matter, whatever is decided, why not include "DESCRIPTION"?
7 This seems to me a candidate for something that does not change version
8 to version (or at least shouldn't - since there is only one displayed,
9 e.g., in emerge --search).
10
11 -Joe