On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:52:48PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 03:44:20 -0700 > >> > >> "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Either we need special cases to declare that it no longer has a > >> > homepage, or we need to allow the empty HOMEPAGE. > >> > >> HOMEPAGE="( )" > > > > HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/"; > > > That would impose needless lookups on subdomains of gentoo.org for > clients trying to load the homepage. http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then.
> HOMEPAGE="UNKNOWN" seems to work fine and keeps logic fairly simple: > if HOMEPAGE != "UNKNOWN" > do_something_with_HOMEPAGE > ... My reason to support an empty HOMEPAGE variable is that the only existing code that needs changing is repoman. If we change to have some special value that isn't a URL, then all existing code (esp code that doesn't use the Portage APIs) needs to be changed. HOMEPAGE="" # with some comment explaining why -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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