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From: "Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)" <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:38:38
Message-Id: 1130268962.1491.1.camel@Darkmere.darkmere
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:35:20 +0200 Krzysiek Pawlik
3 > <nelchael@g.o> wrote:
4 > | Marco Morales wrote:
5 > | > I think "none" could be the better workaround imho.
6 > |
7 > | I vote for "none" too :) It clearly states, that HOMEPAGE is missing.
8 > | Blank HOMEPAGE is misleading.
9 >
10 > Then any automated tools will need to be told explicitly that "none" is
11 > something special. With all HOMEPAGE entries being fully qualified URIs,
12 > you can just do something like for h in HOMEPAGE ; do firefox "$h" & ;
13 > done , which works just fine in multiple and blank homepage cases...
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16 I agree with Ciaran here. exporting the explicitly empty variable is a
17 good thing. If, however the variable is unset completely, then we have
18 an issue of laziness on a developers part.
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21 //Spider
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>