On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:05 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Mike Frysinger 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...). > > I think we have to distinguish between PMS and tree policy here. > The package manager should be able to handle any empty or missing > variables (except for DESCRIPTION and SLOT). Otherwise we'd have to > complicate the spec with additional case distinctions, e.g. for > virtuals. PMS should be able to handle empty DESCRIPTION (i.e. for hand-written dirty test ebuilds). And an empty SLOT has its meaning. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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