On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:53:37PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven > variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, and > IUSE, even if their value is empty. > > Could we drop this requirement? Repoman already enforces that > DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, LICENSE, SLOT, and KEYWORDS are non-empty > (with some exceptions for virtuals). I don't see why we need to > distinguish the "empty value" and "not assigned" cases. > > For example, many live ebuilds already don't define SRC_URI. I'm not > aware of any problems caused by this. +1 from me.
-- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
