Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:19:25
Message-Id: 18665.44522.209942.300425@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Projects without a homepage, and valid contents of HOMEPAGE (per bug 239268) by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 >>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson wrote:
2
3 >> > HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/"
4 >> That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for
5 >> clients trying to load the homepage.
6 > http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then.
7
8 Couldn't a page be created at this URL, with a notice that the package
9 has no real homepage?
10
11 Ulrich

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