On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:44 +0100, Miroslav Šulc wrote: > hi, > > it's proly little bit off this topic, but why do we have to copy > homepage and description from ebuild to ebuild? wouldn't it be better to > move this information to metadata.xml and keep it just there? or does in > reality one package really have various homepages and various > descriptions for different versions? metadata.xml could also contain > more structured data like you outlined, i.e. link to homepage, > sources/repository, bug tracker and possibly other. >
Inertia. It's been proposed years ago, never moved forward. The relevant bug is here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/186454 If you want to discuss it further, please do it on the bug (even though it's closed). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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