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