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Stroller schreef: |
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> On 26 Dec 2005, at 20:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: |
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>>> Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for |
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>>> this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept |
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>>> or decline it. If user accepts fetching starts... |
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>> Which would almost certainly break Sun's licence, they want to see |
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>> you agree to the licence. The best emerge could do would be to load |
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>> the relevant page in your browser, where you could jump through |
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>> whatever hoops the licence requires. |
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> I thought emerge did something like this for some of the games |
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> packages... I thought it displayed the whole text of the license and |
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> requires the reader to accept before continuing. |
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Yes, it does; but those I have encountered (Quake 4, for example) |
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require you to have already bought the game to even install it (insofar |
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as you're unlikely to install a game you can't run, because the game |
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data files must be transferred from the CD, and the serial number from |
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the game box must be entered before you can play). |
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Since you have already bought the game the license is displayed via the |
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install script, just as it would be displayed by the Windows installer |
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before installation proceeded. But afaik, the displayed license is a |
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part of the install script (which in the case of Quake 4, is provided by |
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id, not by gentoo), not a part of emerge /per se/. The same thing |
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happens, iirc, with the Flash installer, which is why you have to |
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install it via the command line when installing manually or under |
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another distro-- the developer-provided install script (which is what's |
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contained in the *.rpm, basically an rpm install just unpacks the script |
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then runs it) requires that the license be accepted before the script |
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will proceed with the install, and if for whatever reason you're not |
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installing from the command line (for example, SuSE users using the |
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YAST/Konqueror integration and clicking the "install with YAST" button |
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with the *.rpm selected in a Konq window) the app will not install, |
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because you cannot accept the licence (because you can't see it, not |
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having a term window open), and therefore the install script does not run. |
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But as Neil said, this is not the same situation as with Sun and IBM (or |
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Transgaming), who require you to specifically, personally, authenticate |
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yourself *to /their/ servers* prior to downloading the binary /from/ |
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their servers. Which emerge cannot do (authenticate each individual user |
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to the relevant server and then download the binary on the basis of that |
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authentication). |
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Holly |
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