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From:	James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:36:08
Message-Id:	`m34p1mco2d.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future by flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)

1	>>>>> "Diego" == Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com> writes:
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3	>> But also the need to replicate http://www.kde.org/ to metadata.xml of
4	>> all KDE split ebuilds -- right now, this is set by an eclass.
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6	Diego> The usefulness of this is IMHO debatable; why not just writing it one
7	Diego> package (say kde-base/kde or kde-meta) and just there? Having each
8	Diego> mini-package express itself as having that as its homepage is not very
9	Diego> useful to me, but I guess it's debatable.
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11	Searching is an important reason for every package to specify its homepage.
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13	-JimC
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15	James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Subject	Author
[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future	flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)