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Matthias Langer posted <1136952512.5741.5.camel@××××××××××.ruz-net>, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:31 +0100: |
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> After reading the response for bug 118607, which i filed, i was woundering |
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> if there isn't a more appropriate default procedure for packages with no |
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> homepages then just leaving the invalid 'homepage-link' alone ... |
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> Shouldn't there be a way to tell portage that a certain package simply |
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> doesn't have a homepage ? Matthias |
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There was a recent thread on this, probably a month or two ago. Various |
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devs offered various suggestions, most of which they've been using in |
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packages they maintain. Apparently repoman complains if the variable |
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isn't there, so devs simply put "none" or "" or "http://www.gentoo.org" |
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or their dev page address as the homepage. Again, look around, you'll see |
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these "solutions" and others, such as leaving the stale address in place |
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as in the case at hand. There's was no single standard solution agreed |
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to, as it appeared no one was sufficiently interested to push one, |
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figuring more important things, like squashing real functionality bugs, |
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was more important, with the limited time every Gentoo dev has, being they |
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are all volunteers. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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