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On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 23:38 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: |
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> Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
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> >>>> HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/" |
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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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> > Couldn't a page be created at this URL, with a notice that the package |
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> > has no real homepage? |
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> I think that'd take too much time to create and maintain that sort of |
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> thing, especially once old packages are finally removed from the tree. |
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I think the suggestion is to have one generic homepage for all packages |
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without one, not a Gentoo-specific homepage for each project. |
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> Why not just stick in a message that says "This package has no |
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> homepage"? Or "none"? Is there any reason why that couldn't go into the |
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> HOMEPAGE="" variable? Will it break QA tools and other utilities? |
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I guess there are a bunch of tools out there that expect a URL in |
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HOMEPAGE, so providing one will not raise any potential |
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incompatibilities. |
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