On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 23:38 -0700, Josh Saddler wrote: > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robin H Johnson 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. > >> http://gentoo.org/package-has-no-homepage/ then. > > > > Couldn't a page be created at this URL, with a notice that the package > > has no real homepage?
> > I think that'd take too much time to create and maintain that sort of > thing, especially once old packages are finally removed from the tree. I think the suggestion is to have one generic homepage for all packages without one, not a Gentoo-specific homepage for each project. > Why not just stick in a message that says "This package has no > homepage"? Or "none"? Is there any reason why that couldn't go into the > HOMEPAGE="" variable? Will it break QA tools and other utilities? I guess there are a bunch of tools out there that expect a URL in HOMEPAGE, so providing one will not raise any potential incompatibilities. Hans
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