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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:54:39
Message-Id: 20031123235438.GD9989@time
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking by Aron Griffis
1 Aron Griffis wrote: [Sun Nov 23 2003, 06:47:15PM EST]
2 > > - How should portage handle packages with unaccepted licenses
3 >
4 > This one is easy. To maintain the non-interactive nature of emerge, it
5 > should simply die with an error message that informs the user of the
6 > problem, what to go read, and how to re-run the emerge so that it will
7 > work (for example ACCEPT_LICENSES='vim' emerge --resume)
8
9 Also, as Spanky mentioned earlier, license checking should happen
10 immediately when starting the emerge, instead of waiting for the
11 particular package.
12
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14 Aron Griffis
15 Gentoo Linux Developer (alpha / ia64 / ruby / vim)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>