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On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 06:00, Tom Wesley wrote: |
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> On Saturday 04 October 2003 05:28, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > On 03/10/2003 at 15:35:58(-0400), Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > We have since added a check_license function to the eutils.eclass. |
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> > |
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> > I only have one little comment. Maybe games packages should have some other |
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> > restriction? Something like the big ref F that appears for fetch-restricted |
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> > packages like sun-jdk. My idea is that an "emerge world" would fail when it |
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> > tries to update the game, because check_license is going to be interactive. |
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> > |
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> > Further note: a user shouldn't need to agree to a license more than once |
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> > (unless the license changed), so an upgrade should be reasonably welcome |
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> > without the check_license part. |
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> Either that, or maybe when you emerge a group of packages portage could check |
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> all the licenses and force you to agree to them before doing anything? |
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I prefer the idea of portage tracking the licenses you have accepted to |
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keep you from being asked again on the same license. The check license |
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should honestly be there even in upgrades on the off chance that the |
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license has been changed between updates. Take WINE (from X11 to LGPL) |
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as an example. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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