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On 21.2.2010 14.49, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> On 02/21/2010 02:36 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>> On 21.2.2010 14.17, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>> On 02/21/2010 09:08 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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>>>> On 20.2.2010 14.28, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>>>> Hi, |
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>>>>> Since portage-2.1.7.x is stable now, with ACCEPT_LICENSE support, we |
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>>>>> can think about deprecating check_license [1]. This will allow us to |
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>>>>> avoid using PROPERTIES=interactive in cases when it is due to |
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>>>>> check_license alone, since anything with a license in the @EULA |
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>>>>> license group is automatically masked by the default |
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>>>>> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" portage configuration [2]. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299095 |
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>>>>> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302645 |
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>>>> |
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>>>> We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=4 don't |
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>>>> define the function any more and the Portage version will be |
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>>>> sufficiently new to have ACCEPT_LICENSE. |
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>>> |
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>>> That's a good idea. However, we may want to deprecate check_license |
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>>> it starting with EAPI=3 since the corresponding portage versions |
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>>> already support ACCEPT_LICENSE. |
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>> Likely there wouldn't be any breakage with it doing it in EAPI 3 but it |
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>> would be against the eclass contract of not changing expected behavior. |
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> Given that check_license already returns silently if the user has |
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> accepted the appropriate license(s) via ACCEPT_LICENSE, it's not |
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> necessary to change the eclass contract in order to safely remove |
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> PROPERTIES=interactive from EAPI=3 ebuilds. |
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So we could keep check_license defined in EAPI 3 and remove interactive |
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from PROPERTIES and in EAPI 4 undefine it. We should also have a repoman |
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check so developers catch it. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |