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"Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> posted |
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b41005390810051952i93eafb0r5a0ca7e31a34574c@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:52:48 -0700: |
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> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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>> |
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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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I like Thilo's suggestion -- modified a bit and with the caveat that such |
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a page is actually created, with some generic details explaining that no |
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other homepage could be found and how Gentoo handles such cases (a link |
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to the DMCA/copyright notification page may be helpful as a CYA, this |
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being written assuming Gentoo has one, I've not checked but if we don't |
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it could save a LOT of trouble if someone makes a mistake...), and |
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encouraging anyone who comes across a homepage for such a package to bug |
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it. |
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The modification bit would be to make it a new page on an existing |
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subdomain. Something like this: http://www.gentoo.org/no-homepage.xml |
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It could be made per-project or the like, too, but that makes it more |
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difficult to auto-detect, for anyone/anything that desires to. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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