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While the KDE eclass doesn't set specific homepages per packages, a |
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number of other eclasses do: |
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eclass/horde.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://www.horde.org/${HORDE_PN}" |
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eclass/java-pkg-2.eclass: HOMEPAGE="http://commons.apache.org/${PN#commons-}/" |
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eclass/kernel-2.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://www.kernel.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ ${HOMEPAGE}" |
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eclass/perl-module.eclass: HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/search?query=${MY_PN:-${PN}}&mode=dist" |
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eclass/php-ext-pecl-r1.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://pecl.php.net/${PECL_PKG}" |
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eclass/php-pear-r1.eclass:[[ -z "${HOMEPAGE}" ]] && HOMEPAGE="http://pear.php.net/${PHP_PEAR_PKG_NAME}" |
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eclass/ruby.eclass:HOMEPAGE="http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=${PN}" |
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eclass/xfce44.eclass: HOMEPAGE="http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/projects/${MY_PN}" |
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Additionally, some of the above eclasses are used by other eclasses: ant-tasks, |
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java-gnome, perl-app, perl-post, php-ext-pecl, php-ezc, php-pear, gems |
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A quick scan of the tree shows 15% of the ebuilds do not set the HOMEPAGE |
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variable in the ebuild itself. And a LOT more qualify, esp. in dev-ruby and |
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dev-perl. Some quick scanning on groups of packages that I'm aware of puts the |
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figure beyond 20% of the tree qualifying (converting any dev-perl/perl-core |
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package that comes from CPAN). |
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As another major pain, for ebuilds where the homepage changes every version in |
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some predictable pattern, you have now increased the maintenance burden. Before |
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we could just copy the ebuild if we had a suitable variable expression in the |
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HOMEPAGE variable, but now we'd have to edit it into metadata.xml as well. |
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For all the rest of the ebuilds where it does remain static, I don't see |
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any actual advantage to removing it from the ebuilds. |
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To be very clear however, I've got _zero_ objections to adding the extra |
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new fields into the metadata.xml, provided they are version independent. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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