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On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 02:41:07PM +0300, Alexander Kurakin wrote: |
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> Good day! |
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> Was there an idea to move HOMEPAGE, DESCRIPTION, etc. to metadata.xml? |
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There is[1] (since 2007), but it never went anywhere. |
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> Are the properties common for package, aren’t they? |
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Usually anyway. For what it's worth, among what I maintain, there is |
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one package (nvidia-drivers) where the 0/vulkan slot (525.47.x) has |
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a different HOMEPAGE pointing to the vulkan page. Not that "most" tools |
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really consider differences for these when displaying so it's mostly |
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useful for someone opening the ebuild and wanting something to click. |
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Having these readily viewable in the ebuild rather than buried in |
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the metadata is often an argument to keep these, i.e. without |
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description can't even see what the package is about if only looking |
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at the ebuild. Not that I need that myself given I use repo-cd[2] |
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that displays metadata when I work on ebuilds. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/186454 |
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[2] https://github.com/ionenwks/iwdevtools#repo-cd |
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