Re: [gentoo-dev] Lifting the HOMEPAGE requirement for ebuilds

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:33:49 -0500
Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:

> On Sunday 13 January 2013 13:27:44 Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:27:02 -0500
> >
> > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 13 January 2013 09:24:02 Michał Górny wrote:
> > > > Right now an attempt to commit an ebuild with no HOMEPAGE results in:
> > > >   HOMEPAGE.missing              1
> > > >
> > > >    app-admin/eselect-sh/eselect-sh-0.4.ebuild
> > >
> > > use the common eselect homepage ? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/
> >
> > How is it meaningful? It would suggest people to look for something
> > there... and there's nothing about eselect-sh there.
> >
> > If the only purpose of HOMEPAGE is to put something semi-related there,
> > I think it should be renamed to SEMIRANDOMURI.
>
> have you actually read the page ?  there is general eselect guides and
> overviews.
>
> conversely, i install "eselect-sh" and then what ?  it provides absolutely no
> documentation -- an "sh.eselect" file with no information as how to use it.

Ok, that is an argument.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny