On Saturday, 10. September 2011 17:19:36 Alex Schuster wrote: > Michael Schreckenbauer writes: > > On Saturday, 10. September 2011 16:50:30 Alex Schuster wrote: > > > What you need to do is to tell portage you accept the license by > > > putting the >=dev-java/... line into /etc/portage/package.license. > > > Or > > > you could add the --autounmask-write switch to your emerge command, > > > and then use etc-update/dispatch-conf/cfg-update or whatever you use > > > to update the config files. > > > > Ah. This /etc/portage/package.license thing is new to me. > > I use ACCEPT_LICENSE in make.conf. > > You know, what's the difference (if any)? > > No, I don't there is any. Just like with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. It's just > cleaner to have this in package.license I think. > > The man pages for portage and make.conf have some more information on > this.
Thanks. The difference is, that package.license is per package. So one could set ACCEPT_LICENSE in make.conf and override this setting for some packages in package.license. Now I wonder, what the use-cases would be? Why would one accept a specific license for package A, but not for package B? > Wonko Regards, Michael
