Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:42:04
Message-Id: 1069634565.22792.3.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking by Aron Griffis
1 On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 18:54, Aron Griffis wrote:
2 > Aron Griffis wrote: [Sun Nov 23 2003, 06:47:15PM EST]
3 > > > - How should portage handle packages with unaccepted licenses
4 > >
5 > > This one is easy. To maintain the non-interactive nature of emerge, it
6 > > should simply die with an error message that informs the user of the
7 > > problem, what to go read, and how to re-run the emerge so that it will
8 > > work (for example ACCEPT_LICENSES='vim' emerge --resume)
9 >
10 > Also, as Spanky mentioned earlier, license checking should happen
11 > immediately when starting the emerge, instead of waiting for the
12 > particular package.
13
14 We should probably add another letter to the output of emerge --pretend,
15 perhaps an L for License.
16
17 Example:
18 [ebuild RFL ] games-fps/savagedemo-0

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Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>