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Quoting Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu>: |
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> Christian Parpart wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:04, Carlos Silva wrote: |
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>> [...] |
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>> |
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>>> What do you think of this? |
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>> I once asked for a better place (namely metadata.xml), but got |
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>> corrected with |
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>> the following reason: |
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>> |
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>> HOMEPAGE/LICENSE/DESCRIPTION might change over version bumps; not just the |
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>> revision/version number, also the description reflecting major behavior |
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>> changes from version 0.1 to 1.0 for example; |
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>> The license may change for numerous reasons; |
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>> The homepage may change as version 1.2.4.x might be available on $URL/a and |
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>> 1.4.8.y might be available on $URL/b (and though maybe even slotted); both |
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>> can still be the same package; though slotted, and with differend homepage |
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>> URL. |
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>> |
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> So have versioned metadata, it's XML afterall. |
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Ebuild's HOMEPAGE/LICENSE/DESCRIPTION could override those in metadata.xml if |
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necessary. |
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>> But anyway, I feel that these cases in realworld are really very |
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>> rare (except |
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>> the the license-change thingy) |
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>> |
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>> just my thoughts, |
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>> Christian Parpart. |
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Julien Allanos (dju`) |
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Gentoo Developer (web-apps) |
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