On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:54, Duncan wrote: > Matthias Langer posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:08:31 +0100: > > After reading the response for bug 118607, which i filed, i was > > woundering if there isn't a more appropriate default procedure for > > packages with no homepages then just leaving the invalid > > 'homepage-link' alone ... Shouldn't there be a way to tell portage > > that a certain package simply doesn't have a homepage ? Matthias > > There was a recent thread on this, probably a month or two ago. > Various devs offered various suggestions, most of which they've been > using in packages they maintain. Apparently repoman complains if the > variable isn't there, so devs simply put "none" or "" or > "http://www.gentoo.org"; or their dev page address as the homepage. > Again, look around, you'll see these "solutions" and others, such as > leaving the stale address in place as in the case at hand. There's was > no single standard solution agreed to, as it appeared no one was > sufficiently interested to push one, figuring more important things, > like squashing real functionality bugs, was more important, with the > limited time every Gentoo dev has, being they are all volunteers.
Better solution is to use something like the freshmeat directory, or if possible the directory of the webserver/ftp server where the packages get released. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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