"Alec Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:52:48 -0700:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thilo Bangert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> 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. I like Thilo's suggestion -- modified a bit and with the caveat that such a page is actually created, with some generic details explaining that no other homepage could be found and how Gentoo handles such cases (a link to the DMCA/copyright notification page may be helpful as a CYA, this being written assuming Gentoo has one, I've not checked but if we don't it could save a LOT of trouble if someone makes a mistake...), and encouraging anyone who comes across a homepage for such a package to bug it. The modification bit would be to make it a new page on an existing subdomain. Something like this: http://www.gentoo.org/no-homepage.xml It could be made per-project or the like, too, but that makes it more difficult to auto-detect, for anyone/anything that desires to. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
