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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:28:02
Message-Id: 4B816881.8050608@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license by Zac Medico
1 On 20.2.2010 14.28, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Since portage-2.1.7.x is stable now, with ACCEPT_LICENSE support, we
5 > can think about deprecating check_license [1]. This will allow us to
6 > avoid using PROPERTIES=interactive in cases when it is due to
7 > check_license alone, since anything with a license in the @EULA
8 > license group is automatically masked by the default
9 > ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" portage configuration [2].
10 >
11 > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299095
12 > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302645
13
14 We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=4 don't
15 define the function any more and the Portage version will be
16 sufficiently new to have ACCEPT_LICENSE.
17
18 Regards,
19 Petteri

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