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Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote: |
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>>>> HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/" |
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>>> That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for |
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>>> clients trying to load the homepage. |
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>> http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then. |
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> Couldn't a page be created at this URL, with a notice that the package |
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> has no real homepage? |
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> Ulrich |
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I think that'd take too much time to create and maintain that sort of |
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thing, especially once old packages are finally removed from the tree. |
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Why not just stick in a message that says "This package has no |
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homepage"? Or "none"? Is there any reason why that couldn't go into the |
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HOMEPAGE="" variable? Will it break QA tools and other utilities? |
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Sure, it'd be nice if there was a homepage, but putting one on |
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gentoo.org implies that we do code fixes and other work, not just |
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hosting the tarballs. Do we really want to *be* upstream for all our |
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orphaned packages? |
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