On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:14, Peter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses':
> On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan     , Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> > Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a
> > proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies?
>
> Have you taken a look at GLEP 23?

Yeah.  It had already been proposed when I installed Gentoo the first time: 
in 2004.

Don't hold your breath.

> I for one hope that this gets 
> implemented pretty soon. :-)

There does appear to have been some forward progress, which is good.  It 
languished for over two years without progress at one point.

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