On Monday 14 January 2013 15:15:03 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El lun, 14-01-2013 a las 18:15 +0100, hasufell escribió:
> [...]
> 
> > >> +1 to allow empty/missing HOMEPAGE variable
> > >> 
> > >> dead homepage => useless
> > >> http://gentoo.org => useless
> > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org => too obvious
> > > 
> > > An empty homepage usually means the package is dead. I'd rather see
> > > the cvs/git/svn url being used as HOMEPAGE in case your tiny little
> > > script has no proj page at all.
> > 
> > No, an empty homepage just means upstream is dead. There are numerous
> > examples of years old packages still working fine without a single
> > update.
> 
> Other option is to use "gentoo.org" as HOMEPAGE for that packages (as
> some of them are already doing). But, since people think it's useless,
> why not use as HOMEPAGE
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/...
> ?

semi-related, drop that intermediate noise.
        http://sources.gentoo.org/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/
it'll redirect to the right place
-mike

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