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On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:15, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Friday 21 November 2003 19:07, Erik Swanson wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:32, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > > The social contract states that Gentoo Linux will never _depend_ on |
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> > > nonfree software. However, we still provide it. If we moved over to a |
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> > > Debian-esque "if you want nonfree software, you need to change settings" |
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> > > it would irritate a decently large number of people. |
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> > My suggestion of a conservative default was under the assumption that it |
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> > would be trivial to accept additional licenses. An interactive "y" after |
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> > being shown the license, for example. I agree that a more liberal |
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> > default would be in order if it required substantial effort (such as |
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> > editing make.conf) to accept additional licenses. |
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> I don't want interactive "y"'s as in that case I cannot redirect my output to |
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> a logfile anymore. |
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Then don't "emerge enemy-territory" or "emerge ut2003"... =[ |
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I had considered proposing the idea of some form of flag which can be |
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set from within an ebuild that tells portage that the ebuild is |
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"interactive" and would cause portage to skip that ebuild during a merge |
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unless a flag (variable, etc) were specified on the command-line. |
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Dependencies would be taken care of much like masked packages. Portage |
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would give an error at the beginning of a merge if one of the |
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dependencies for something you are merging is marked as interactive. |
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Something like INTERACTIVE=yes in the ebuild and emerge --interactive. |
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Otherwise the ebuild would be skipped (like in a emerge -u world), |
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preferably with some form of message displayed BEFORE the merge starts. |
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* Enemy Territory requires user input and will be skipped during this |
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emerge. You can diable this behavior by running emerge with the |
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--interactive command-line option. |
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Then again, that could be a serious PITA to code, so feel free to ignore |
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me at any time. =] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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