On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:08:25AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:01, R Hill wrote: > > AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the > > source, not installed on the system after compilation. But I could be > > wrong too. > > anyone who installs a program in portage already has a copy of the license on > their system ... $PORTDIR/licenses/
Assuming the tree is locally available (remote, or binpkg's used to generate images)... Lets put it this way; if ebuilds are specifically filtering it out on their own, nobody who wants the licenses install has them. If they're installed via the ebuild, and removed via INSTALL_MASK, everybody can get what they want. So why nuke by default? ~harring
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