-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/22/2014 01:20 AM, Gordon Pettey wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Alexander Berntsen > <berna...@gentoo.org <mailto:berna...@gentoo.org>> wrote: > > On 21/07/14 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> What's wrong with HOMEPAGE="()" ? > It is not very informative. > > The wiki page is equivalently informative. What's the point of > metadata that just says "there's no metadata"?
Users expect a url, not something like () . none or anything else. The url gives information, that the website is not available anymore - as it is part of the url itself: "No_homepage". The wikipage gives hints where to find further information about the package. Cheers, Manuel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJTzafuXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4MDA1RERERkM0ODM2QkE4MEY3NzY0N0M1 OEZCQTM2QzhEOUQ2MzVDAAoJEFj7o2yNnWNceDUP/3BbUqqJz8uUXV35D9IDCFSZ /Ei3SxEy6/wCojyE9e/2hmuSo6fsdujNRB9VCGIHWoz8WfhZJSQktuXgXzyP8zbD M6CBWcnx2xWpqYZBECoh6+jdltySWVu5YWZXX6gShlID9dhfLt9hRzBeL9YNGQ7J deI8pDnbWP2LY+9CUPydXyQCr2N6hfXAfOhmTyQlfsr2JoA7AVFDTL0w+q5U4v/X ss92kpi+joCHeJKRLsyVQk8HQMTKUZ6bgbXXvt/eb9ppuc+U4uVpmejiflMnq2vL vfuH+KHNNrnj450UYgtaXnIn8Ot2VxC6X8+GR/PsDL7xqn6kcQgFk7mtgx/IZImq EhyjCpNc/DEfqSmGA7fe0feOlTCTsDymocS+2TAN+ZkLV/WdJzbmMzuK6gkdntOe MNRo05do2B2serYrOCFKm6ql7CrI0+68Dsnpd8P4tONugzL6g4Wg2uK3D3zrutD5 blS3m4rtS5VVMwhuNefFockJxkTVtR+q3Gc3ES9kYaTdA7TL5EYF/bHWVBdwk9BM b+ZtJUyo2PQXVRxdURRWF4IDQwDoCS1kjeovameLo3QdLMakMQTmGGUPzpqoOKgh 3u8cFg+RelmJzgxKvUfM2H892RLXpvhuSLY1wGicdJeOYpxlEl5wtaR6KlKpv0xS EUnC838zhcRGVSILaIx8 =ZtUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----