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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:08:03
Message-Id: 20140730200748.GA18377@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default HOMEPAGE for packages with unavailable website by Gordon Pettey
1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:20:12PM -0500, Gordon Pettey wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 >
5 > > On 21/07/14 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 > > > What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ?
7 > > It is not very informative.
8 > >
9 > The wiki page is equivalently informative. What's the point of metadata
10 > that just says "there's no metadata"?
11
12 I'm just picking a random message to respond to.
13
14 I just noticed in PMS that HOMEPAGE is an optional variable, so we
15 really don't need a default home page at all. It seems completely legit
16 for an ebuild to not even define the HOMEPAGE variable.
17
18 William

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