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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:25:26
Message-Id: 20051025202225.506126ae@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? by Krzysiek Pawlik
1 On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:35:20 +0200 Krzysiek Pawlik
2 <nelchael@g.o> wrote:
3 | Marco Morales wrote:
4 | > I think "none" could be the better workaround imho.
5 |
6 | I vote for "none" too :) It clearly states, that HOMEPAGE is missing.
7 | Blank HOMEPAGE is misleading.
8
9 Then any automated tools will need to be told explicitly that "none" is
10 something special. With all HOMEPAGE entries being fully qualified URIs,
11 you can just do something like for h in HOMEPAGE ; do firefox "$h" & ;
12 done , which works just fine in multiple and blank homepage cases...
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
16 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
17 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? "Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)" <spider@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>