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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:09:41
Message-Id: 4B81B0FC.60801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 02/21/2010 09:08 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > On 20.2.2010 14.28, Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> Since portage-2.1.7.x is stable now, with ACCEPT_LICENSE support, we
6 >> can think about deprecating check_license [1]. This will allow us to
7 >> avoid using PROPERTIES=interactive in cases when it is due to
8 >> check_license alone, since anything with a license in the @EULA
9 >> license group is automatically masked by the default
10 >> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" portage configuration [2].
11 >>
12 >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299095
13 >> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302645
14 >
15 > We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=4 don't
16 > define the function any more and the Portage version will be
17 > sufficiently new to have ACCEPT_LICENSE.
18
19 That's a good idea. However, we may want to deprecate check_license
20 it starting with EAPI=3 since the corresponding portage versions
21 already support ACCEPT_LICENSE.
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>