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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:13:08
Message-Id: 1991270a-482d-28f0-4834-8308b4c27351@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE by Mike Gilbert
1 On 08/03/2017 02:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 >
3 > It's in the devmanual, which imposes gentoo-specific policy on top of PMS.
4 >
5
6 It would be nice if that were true, but there's a lot of junk and/or
7 personal preference documented in the devmanual, and a lot of
8 actual-policy that's still missing because it can't get past review.
9 This looks like it was tacked on for fun as part of the devrel handbook
10 merger:
11
12 https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/commit/c97aec7f7e236bc917067763916530bfa05d6e31
13
14 (The old handbook never mentioned variables, from what I can see.)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Allow variable refs in HOMEPAGE Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>