On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:53:37PM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> Our current policy [1] requires that ebuilds must assign the seven >> variables DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, LICENSE, SLOT, KEYWORDS, and >> IUSE, even if their value is empty. >> >> Could we drop this requirement? Repoman already enforces that >> DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, LICENSE, SLOT, and KEYWORDS are non-empty >> (with some exceptions for virtuals). I don't see why we need to >> distinguish the "empty value" and "not assigned" cases. >> >> For example, many live ebuilds already don't define SRC_URI. I'm not >> aware of any problems caused by this. > +1 from me. >
++ Thanks, Pesa
