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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:02:55
Message-Id: 20051025195625.GK23614@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage? by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Tue Oct 25 2005, 02:22:25PM CDT]
2 > Then any automated tools will need to be told explicitly that "none" is
3 > something special. With all HOMEPAGE entries being fully qualified URIs,
4 > you can just do something like for h in HOMEPAGE ; do firefox "$h" & ;
5 > done , which works just fine in multiple and blank homepage cases...
6
7 As an aside, when I put xsnap in the tree long ago, I just
8 duplicated the SRC_URI in HOMEPAGE. I don't know that it's any better a
9 solution than HOMEPAGE="", but at least it gives people something to
10 click on who use packages.g.o.
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