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From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:05:53
Message-Id: m2ljuyhxus.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future by James Cloos
1 James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com> writes:
2
3 > Searching is an important reason for every package to specify its homepage.
4
5 And?
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7 metadata.xml already contains data that eix and other software should be
8 able to search in (like longdescriptions), and having each package in
9 kde-base report http://www.kde.org/ as its homepage is kinda pointless
10 if you think about search, since that's not data, it's noise.
11
12 Which only adds to my point.
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14 --
15 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
16 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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