Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:20:41 +0200 Krzysiek Pawlik
<nelchael@g.o> wrote:
| Mike Frysinger wrote:
| > how can a blank HOMEPAGE be misleading ?
| 
| Page is unknown, too lazy to search, what does empty HOMEPAGE exactly
| mean?

That there is no HOMEPAGE, in the same way that an empty DEPEND means
there are no dependencies, an empty IUSE means there are no used USE
flags and an empty SRC_URI means there are no download components.

For "unknown" or "too lazy" cases, the package shouldn't be in the tree.

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