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On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:22, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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> -- So what dialogue resulted in them returning and what happened exactly? |
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right now it just uses $PAGER and then asks a simple yes/no question |
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> -- What form does the licence check take exactly in theory to save me |
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> having to re-emerge ET? Are ebuilds interactive for the first time ever |
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> in the lifetime of the operating system? |
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right now it'll ask you everytime you emerge the package (unless you define |
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what licenses you accept via the variable ACCEPT_LICENSES in make.conf). |
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these change is a moving-forward-only-step ... that is to say, the current |
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state of portage does not violate the EULA thus we dont have to force all |
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users to upgrade all their packages just to say 'yes'. |
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> -- Will this licence check now serve as the default method of handling |
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> EULA's for future licenced games? |
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i'm trying to get this integrated into portage so that we can more easily |
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track what licenses the user accepts and to make the whole process smoother. |
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right now this implementation is the 'bare min' just to make portage legally |
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safe. the next step is looking into a long term implementation ... |
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-mike |
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