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On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:44 +0100, Miroslav Šulc wrote: |
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> hi, |
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> it's proly little bit off this topic, but why do we have to copy |
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> homepage and description from ebuild to ebuild? wouldn't it be better to |
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> move this information to metadata.xml and keep it just there? or does in |
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> reality one package really have various homepages and various |
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> descriptions for different versions? metadata.xml could also contain |
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> more structured data like you outlined, i.e. link to homepage, |
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> sources/repository, bug tracker and possibly other. |
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Inertia. It's been proposed years ago, never moved forward. |
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The relevant bug is here: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/186454 |
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If you want to discuss it further, please do it on the bug (even though |
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it's closed). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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