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On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:08, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 08:22, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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> > |
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> >>Hello |
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> >> From cvs changelogs I notice ID based based including ET are back in |
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> >>portage and also that they now have a licence check. |
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> >> |
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> >>-- So what dialogue resulted in them returning and what happened exactly? |
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> > Essentially, the games team decided we were going to implement the |
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> > license check and put them back in portage. We contacted id Software |
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> > and informed them of what we were doing and asked if they had any |
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> > objections. You can find that message sent from me in the mailing list |
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> > ( a few days ago, Friday, I think). We received a response from the CEO |
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> > of id Software which essentially read that id gives up no rights to us |
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> > at all and as long as we followed the EULA, we were kosher. The license |
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> > check gives us compliance. |
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> Ah I see. Well, thank you for the explanation. It's surprising how |
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> these turnarounds happen isn't it and just how trivial they can become. |
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> I'm over the moon that ID based games are back in portage but also quite |
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> sad that the interactivity rule that ebuilds have followed for so long |
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> has finally been broken. Nevertheless, one might say it's been a worthy |
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> cause and would have happened later if not sooner for a range of |
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> packages of a similar sort. |
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The rule has been broken for some time. There are quite a few packages |
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which install from CD, and one that I know of that even installs from 3 |
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CDs! |
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I've been brainstorming a way to keep packages that require |
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CDs/interactivity from destroying world upgrades. If anyone has any |
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ideas, please let me know. I was thinking of possibly suggesting the |
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introduction of a portage feature to go into FEATURES called |
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"interactive", which turns on interactive mode on ebuilds which require |
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it. If an ebuild requires interactivity but the FEATURE is not set, |
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then the ebuild will skip all of the steps. |
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-- |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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