Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE

[Michał Górny]

On czw, 2017-08-03 at 14:21 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 08/03/2017 11:33 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > I would like to remove the ban on variable references in the HOMEPAGE
> > variable in ebuilds.
> >
>
> What ban are you referring to? The Portage Manager Specification doesn't
> say anything of the sort.
>
> Seriously though, whatever sort of tricks your opponents think they're
> doing with HOMEPAGE don't work. The HOMEPAGE can contain conditionals
> (i.e. dependency syntax), so grepping and copy/pasting are unreliable,
> and we should all continue doing whatever the heck we want.

This argument makes no sense. The dependency syntax requires a lot of
spaces which means clicking, copy-pasting and all other fancy stuff just
works™.

It's always nice when someone who doesn't do X tells those actually
doing X that their method doesn't work without any research to support
it.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny