Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:06:49 +1300
Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
> > HOMEPAGE         Package's homepage. If you are unable to locate an
> > official one, try to provide a link to freshmeat.net or a similar
> > package tracking site. Never refer to a variable name in the string;
> > include only raw text.
>
> I'm not sure if that is a good example of "things that are weird like
> EAPI"
>
> You can set HOMEPAGE in an eclass for instance, using anything you can
> do with bash and build it out of substrings.
>
> perl-module.eclass does just that.
>
> [[ -z "${HOMEPAGE}" ]] && \
>         HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/dist/${MY_PN:-${PN}}/"
>
> Not really comparable in entirety to EAPI.

The point is that there's a silly QA policy saying not to do that. It's
not a PMS rule.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh