>>>>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, James Cloos wrote: > If it does move to metadata, it will need to be copied into /var/db > on install. It is important information which should not be lost if > the package is ever removed from portage.
Also, a scan shows that there are about 400 ebuilds in the tree that access the ${HOMEPAGE} variable. For example, it is used to output messages in fetch-restricted packages. Ulrich