Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds for packages without a homepage?

[Marco Morales]

I think "none" could be the better workaround imho.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:12:42AM +0200, Harald van D??k wrote:
> What's the right thing to do with an ebuild's HOMEPAGE variable if there
> is not any homepage? Different packages have different approaches for
> this; some don't have any HOMEPAGE line (dev-util/cdecl), some set
> HOMEPAGE to the empty string (app-i18n/kon2), possibly with a comment
> following it (app-i18n/kcc), and some set HOMEPAGE to some string that's
> obviously not a URL such as "none" (app-doc/xmltoman) or "I HAVE NO HOME
> :(" (app-text/dos2unix). There don't seem to be any guidelines in the
> docs, either official or unofficial, other than to put a link to the
> freshmeat page or something similar, which isn't possible in my case
> because there is no freshmeat page or anything similar that I know of,
> so what should I do?



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