On czw, 2017-08-03 at 14:21 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 08/03/2017 11:33 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > I would like to remove the ban on variable references in the HOMEPAGE > > variable in ebuilds. > > > > What ban are you referring to? The Portage Manager Specification doesn't > say anything of the sort. > > Seriously though, whatever sort of tricks your opponents think they're > doing with HOMEPAGE don't work. The HOMEPAGE can contain conditionals > (i.e. dependency syntax), so grepping and copy/pasting are unreliable, > and we should all continue doing whatever the heck we want.
This argument makes no sense. The dependency syntax requires a lot of spaces which means clicking, copy-pasting and all other fancy stuff just works™. It's always nice when someone who doesn't do X tells those actually doing X that their method doesn't work without any research to support it. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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