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On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:52:48PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> said: |
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> >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 |
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> >> |
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> >> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> > Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a |
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> >> > homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. |
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> >> |
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> >> HOMEPAGE="( )" |
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> > |
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> > HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/" |
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> > |
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> That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for |
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> clients trying to load the homepage. |
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http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then. |
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> HOMEPAGE="UNKNOWN" seems to work fine and keeps logic fairly simple: |
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> if HOMEPAGE != "UNKNOWN" |
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> do_something_with_HOMEPAGE |
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> ... |
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My reason to support an empty HOMEPAGE variable is that the only |
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existing code that needs changing is repoman. If we change to have some |
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special value that isn't a URL, then all existing code (esp code that |
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doesn't use the Portage APIs) needs to be changed. |
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HOMEPAGE="" # with some comment explaining why |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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