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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:50:59
Message-Id: 22964.64744.228135.515584@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon by R0b0t1
1 >>>>> On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, R0b0t1 wrote:
2
3 > I suspect the links in ebuilds are more like torrent files, in which
4 > case I think it makes sense to wait to be contacted to remove the
5 > links.
6
7 Ebuilds aren't hypertext, so by definition they don't contain any
8 "links". They merely contain lists of URIs.
9
10 You even cannot cut and paste a typical SRC_URI to a browser, because
11 it will choke on things like ${P}, mirror://, arrows, USE-conditional
12 syntax, etc.
13
14 Ulrich