Peter Volkov wrote: > Robert Buchholz ?????: >> Thilo Bangert wrote: >> > HOMEPAGE="http://this-package-has-no-homepage.gentoo.org/"; >> >> Why not use our package site for this, i.e. >> HOMEPAGE="http://packages.gentoo.org/package/${CAT}/${PN}"; > > This is not homepage. HOMEPAGE should point to "package dependent > information" or in other words to upstream. Er it is package-specific, and this is for where there is no upstream.
> Same stands to existent or nonexistent link on gentoo.org or any other > domain. This is even worth as this solution also makes users to open > another page which just tell them that homepage does not exist... > No, the packages site links to a forum search (I'd personally make that a 'site:forums.gentoo.org' google search across the board, since it's so much handier, and get some adsense bucks while you're there;) and a bugzilla search, as well as giving information about all the available versions in the tree. You should check it out ;p > So I think if HOMEPAGE does not exist then it's better either put some > constant there or better make it empty. If we wish, for packages with > empty HOMEPAGE we can teach tools like emerge -s or eix to show "Home > page unknown" or "Homepage does not exist". Simple and clear, what else > do we need? :) > An easy way for Gentoo users to contact other people using the software; given that it's available on Gentoo, and officially dead as far as Gentoo is aware, having the cli interface display that url (however formulated) is a plus in support terms, and maybe one day getting the package resurrected. A gui wrapper like himerge would display the link as clickable, as would a suitably configured xterm. So while I agree the empty value in the ebuild is the way to go, I'd personally like it a lot if Portage at least displayed a useful url (and the website was ok with it.) If you're going that far for the official mangler and the site, it seems like something to mandate/specify (I really /don't/ want to file that bug;) Is there at least consensus that the above formulation wrt user-display, and zero-length, would be useful? (Leaving aside concerns over backward-compatibility/EAPI.)
