Matthias Langer posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:31 +0100:
> After reading the response for bug 118607, which i filed, i was woundering > if there isn't a more appropriate default procedure for packages with no > homepages then just leaving the invalid 'homepage-link' alone ... > Shouldn't there be a way to tell portage that a certain package simply > doesn't have a homepage ? Matthias There was a recent thread on this, probably a month or two ago. Various devs offered various suggestions, most of which they've been using in packages they maintain. Apparently repoman complains if the variable isn't there, so devs simply put "none" or "" or "http://www.gentoo.org"; or their dev page address as the homepage. Again, look around, you'll see these "solutions" and others, such as leaving the stale address in place as in the case at hand. There's was no single standard solution agreed to, as it appeared no one was sufficiently interested to push one, figuring more important things, like squashing real functionality bugs, was more important, with the limited time every Gentoo dev has, being they are all volunteers. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
