Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP23: Portage handling of ACCEPT_LICENSE

[Paul Varner]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:47, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:17, Paul Varner wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:49, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > It can be found at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html.
> > >
> > > Comments anyone?
> >
> > The only thing that I didn't see addressed that hasn't been commented
> > upon is I would like to see the ability to have user defined license
> > groups added.
>
> I'm not wholly against the idea, but of what use would they be? To be more
> specific, what's the difference between a user specifying licenses in a group
> and referencing it from make.conf and just specifying them in make.conf?

Functionality-wise I don't really see a difference and I'm actually
fairly license agnostic so I probably wouldn't use it.

What I was thinking though was along the lines that the current portage
has headed with the package.* files.  I really like the concept of
separate files under /etc/portage that I can muck with and leave my
make.conf alone.

The lines I was thinking of were for someone that had their own concept
of what "Free" licenses they would accept being able to create a file of
some sort that defined exactly what they wanted and then referencing
that group from the make.conf file.  I personally find it easier to use
a separate file for something that can take more than a single line of
text, than to edit it in the make.conf.  Although in writing this, maybe
I should take the code for ufed and modify it to work with the
ACCEPT_LICENSE and call it alfed :)

Again, I could live without it, I just really like being able to define
in a more modular method the choices that I make for my system.
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