Re: [gentoo-dev] Don't require assignment of empty variables in ebuilds?

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:53:37PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven
> variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, and
> IUSE, even if their value is empty.
>
> Could we drop this requirement? Repoman already enforces that
> DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, LICENSE, SLOT, and KEYWORDS are non-empty
> (with some exceptions for virtuals). I don't see why we need to
> distinguish the "empty value" and "not assigned" cases.
>
> For example, many live ebuilds already don't define SRC_URI. I'm not
> aware of any problems caused by this.
+1 from me.

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