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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lifting the HOMEPAGE requirement for ebuilds
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:34:49
Message-Id: 50F2FE29.1050507@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lifting the HOMEPAGE requirement for ebuilds by "Michał Górny"
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4 On 01/13/2013 12:58 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
5 >
6 > If something is a six-liner made by Gentoo and for Gentoo, noone
7 > cares enough to create a homepage for it.
8 >
9 > http://gentoo.org is the most useless 'homepage' value you can use.
10 > It doesn't mean anything, and especially you aren't going to find a
11 > piece of information on the software on that site.
12 >
13 > In that case, even https://bugs.gentoo.org is more useful.
14 >
15
16 My most common use for the HOMEPAGE is when I'm looking through eix
17 output wondering "WTF does this do?" So I visit the homepage to find out.
18
19 Even for a six-line script, you should have the time to essentially
20 `echo README > index.html` and upload it somewhere. This at least lets
21 people click on the URL, see what the package does, and find out where
22 to report bugs.
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