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From: "Manuel RĂ¼ger" <mrueg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:53:58
Message-Id: 53CDA7EE.4080505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website by Gordon Pettey
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4 On 07/22/2014 01:20 AM, Gordon Pettey wrote:
5 > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alexander Berntsen
6 > <bernalex@g.o <mailto:bernalex@g.o>> wrote:
7 >
8 > On 21/07/14 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
9 >> What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ?
10 > It is not very informative.
11 >
12 > The wiki page is equivalently informative. What's the point of
13 > metadata that just says "there's no metadata"?
14
15 Users expect a url, not something like () . none or anything else.
16 The url gives information, that the website is not available anymore -
17 as it is part of the url itself: "No_homepage".
18 The wikipage gives hints where to find further information about the
19 package.
20
21 Cheers,
22
23 Manuel
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