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| From: | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future | ||
| Date: | Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:42:53 | ||
| Message-Id: | 18739.5865.155979.245368@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future by James Cloos |
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| 1 | >>>>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, James Cloos wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > If it does move to metadata, it will need to be copied into /var/db |
| 4 | > on install. It is important information which should not be lost if |
| 5 | > the package is ever removed from portage. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Also, a scan shows that there are about 400 ebuilds in the tree that |
| 8 | access the ${HOMEPAGE} variable. For example, it is used to output |
| 9 | messages in fetch-restricted packages. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Ulrich |