Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:53:36 +0100:
> ACCEPT_LICENSE > -------------- > > This GLEP proposes that a user be able to explicitly accept or decline > licenses by editing a new variable ``ACCEPT_LICENSE`` in > ``/etc/make.conf``. > As an extension, ``ACCEPT_LICENSE`` must also support `license groups`_. > This GLEP proposes that the license group be prepended by the special > character "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > Portage Behaviour > ----------------- > > Unaccepted licenses will be treated like any other masked package, that > is emerge will display a message listing any license that has to be > accepted before the package can be merged with a pointer to the exact > license text. Suggested that a per-package user-override file be specified as well, along with its format. Call it package.license or whatever. The idea being that a user may wish to accept a specific license for a specific package, but not globally. This being Gentoo, this is likely to be implemented anyway, but specifying it and its format in the glep standardizes it, useful when multiple package managers are a factor. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
