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On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 13:22 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > Should we really warn about a package that (in its default |
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> > > configuration) can only be installed if the user accepts non-free |
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> > > licenses? |
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> > That's one of the reasons it's only a warning and not a USE flag. |
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> Still, "Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata |
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> unless it conforms to [a free license]" (Social Contract). |
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> If you really think that you must have that message, can you at least |
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> downgrade it to einfo or elog? That would still be very visible, given |
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> that it's in the pretend phase where there tends to be little output. |
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Can we please put users above silly politics? Gentoo 'does not depend' |
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on any non-free package to print the warning. If people have hardware |
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that requires non-free firmware, the least we can do is point out where |
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to get this firmware from. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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