Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 19:42, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 18:54, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > Aron Griffis wrote:	[Sun Nov 23 2003, 06:47:15PM EST]
> > > > - How should portage handle packages with unaccepted licenses
> > >
> > > This one is easy.  To maintain the non-interactive nature of emerge, it
> > > should simply die with an error message that informs the user of the
> > > problem, what to go read, and how to re-run the emerge so that it will
> > > work (for example ACCEPT_LICENSES='vim' emerge --resume)
> >
> > Also, as Spanky mentioned earlier, license checking should happen
> > immediately when starting the emerge, instead of waiting for the
> > particular package.
>
> We should probably add another letter to the output of emerge --pretend,
> perhaps an L for License.
>
> Example:
> [ebuild   RFL  ] games-fps/savagedemo-0

I would be all for that.

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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