On Wednesday 18 July 2012 13:53:37 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.
i think we should clarify and say that when an eclass provides these, the ebuild need not. completely missing DESCRIPTION/HOMEPAGE should be a warning (and maybe KEYWORDS), and LICENSE should be an error. there are plenty of examples of SRC_URI not being set and that's fine (live ebuilds, ebuilds that only install out of $FILESDIR, virtuals, etc...). -mike
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