On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:40:34PM -0500, Stefhen Hovland wrote:
> I dont know if this has been asked before, but one thing I notice which
> is missing from .deb's is a field for a package's homepage URL. This was a
> nice
> thing with gentoo ebuilds, in that there was a homepage field for each
> package,
> so it was nice and easy for me to cut and paste to firefox and check out the
> homepage of a package I was interested in. I know most will say just google
> for
> the answer and you will probably find the project's homepage pretty quickly,
> but
> this still very handy, plus I could be sure I was going to the correct project
> homepage.
>
> Does anyone know why this is missing from Debian? I am sure about 99% of
> packages out there have a homepage, and if there are any that don't I am sure
> they will have a generic entry on freshmeat.net/packagename which
> could be listed.
>
> Sure most of the packages will end up being packagename.sourceforge.net, but
> this would still be helpful.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Stefhen
>
Hi Stefhen,
checkout: /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE_NAME/README
some have the homepage.
Cheers,
Kev
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