I would like to remove the ban on variable references in the HOMEPAGE variable in ebuilds.
As I understand it, this ban was put in place so that people can easily copy/paste from an ebuild to a web browser. If people want to copy/paste the URL, they can easily query the final value using the portage API, or a tool written against it. % equery m www-client/chromium * www-client/chromium [gentoo] Maintainer: chrom...@gentoo.org (Chromium in Gentoo Project) Upstream: None specified Homepage: http://chromium.org/ Location: /home/floppym/repos/gentoo/www-client/chromium Keywords: 59.0.3071.104:0: x86 Keywords: 60.0.3112.40:0: Keywords: 60.0.3112.78:0: amd64 Keywords: 61.0.3159.5:0: Keywords: 61.0.3163.13:0: ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~x86 License: BSD Allowing variables in HOMEPAGE would allow for easier copying of similar/identical ebuilds. For example, see the trivial ebuilds in my overlay below. https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/8b55fab291ec1f9be93ade9c91e7d62d7b8a259d/dev-go/cloudflare-go/cloudflare-go-0.7.4.ebuild https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/8b55fab291ec1f9be93ade9c91e7d62d7b8a259d/dev-go/pkg-errors/pkg-errors-0.8.0.ebuild https://bitbucket.org/floppym/floppym-overlay/src/8b55fab291ec1f9be93ade9c91e7d62d7b8a259d/dev-go/urfave-cli/urfave-cli-1.19.1.ebuild
