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hi, |
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it's proly little bit off this topic, but why do we have to copy |
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homepage and description from ebuild to ebuild? wouldn't it be better to |
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move this information to metadata.xml and keep it just there? or does in |
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reality one package really have various homepages and various |
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descriptions for different versions? metadata.xml could also contain |
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more structured data like you outlined, i.e. link to homepage, |
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sources/repository, bug tracker and possibly other. |
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miroslav |
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Dne 04. 12. 19 v 13:36 Michał Górny napsal(a): |
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> Hi, |
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> Many of Gentoo-originating packages are listing the main Gentoo site |
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> as HOMEPAGE. In my opinion, this is suboptimal (not to say 'useless'). |
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> I can think of a few uses for HOMEPAGE: |
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> 1. providing additional information about the package (before the user |
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> chooses it), |
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> 2. providing easy access to (additional) documentation, |
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> 3. providing easy access to package sources, |
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> 4. providing easy access to bug reporting, |
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> 5. providing easy access to downloads. |
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> A good HOMEPAGE is dedicated to the package in question, and makes it |
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> easy to find all the stuff (and all other stuff the user might need). |
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> The more effort user needs to put into finding what he needs, the worse |
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> HOMEPAGE is. |
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> Now, if I consider gentoo.org as a HOMEPAGE for ~90 packages it |
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> currently is, it's horribly bad. I suppose that in some cases authors |
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> meant to indicate that Gentoo is the package's upstream. However, by |
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> going to the main Gentoo site, it's *very hard* to find anything about |
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> the package in question. |
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> Just please select a totally random package from those listing |
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> gentoo.org as HOMEPAGE, then go to gentoo.org and try to find either |
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> of the points listed above. If you click 'Downloads', you're certainly |
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> not going to find anything relevant. Through 'Support', you may |
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> eventually find that tiny Bugzilla button at the bottom... and then try |
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> to find the correct Product. You may also find gitweb link somewhere, |
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> and try to see if the project has a repo there. Or maybe it's somewhere |
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> else, or maybe it existed on somebody's devspace once. |
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> My point is: gentoo.org as a HOMEPAGE sucks. Please use something more |
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> specific instead. Even link to gitweb would be more helpful because it |
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> would at least be relevant to the package in question. |
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> |