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On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> said: |
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>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 |
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>> "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a |
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>> > homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. |
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>> HOMEPAGE="( )" |
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> HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/" |
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That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for |
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clients trying to load the homepage. |
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HOMEPAGE="UNKNOWN" seems to work fine and keeps logic fairly simple: |
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if HOMEPAGE != "UNKNOWN" |
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do_something_with_HOMEPAGE |
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... |
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The metadata API could even wrap this functionality such that packages |
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with no homepages could return nothing (not even UNKNOWN) or throw |
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some kind of error. |
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The only reason I would prefer UNKNOWN to Ciaran's suggestion is that |
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HOMEPAGE="( )" is not obvious to the majority of people (it basically |
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looks like a developer mis-pasted or had some other accident). |
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-Alec |
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