On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:38 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they > > > > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ? > > > > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff > > The obvious thing to do is to have a licenses package that install all > of the licenses somewhere. If someone wants to check a license they > emerge it first. /usr/portage/licenses does seem unnecessarily big for > the portage tree.
Not really... See, since emerge -s shows the license, it would mean that portage would need to RDEPEND on the package. Because of this, everyone would have the package anyway. That and it is much simpler to commit a single license file to the tree when adding a package with a new license, then it would be to download the license package tarball, unpack it, increment the version number, copy your license in, repack it, upload it to Gentoo's mirrors, wait for it to sync, update the license package in the tree, wait for that to sync, then add your package. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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