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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:38 +0000, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> On 15/06/05, Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:04:39AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they |
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> > > > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ? |
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> > > > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff |
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> The obvious thing to do is to have a licenses package that install all |
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> of the licenses somewhere. If someone wants to check a license they |
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> emerge it first. /usr/portage/licenses does seem unnecessarily big for |
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> the portage tree. |
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Not really... |
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See, since emerge -s shows the license, it would mean that portage would |
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need to RDEPEND on the package. Because of this, everyone would have |
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the package anyway. That and it is much simpler to commit a single |
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license file to the tree when adding a package with a new license, then |
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it would be to download the license package tarball, unpack it, |
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increment the version number, copy your license in, repack it, upload it |
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to Gentoo's mirrors, wait for it to sync, update the license package in |
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the tree, wait for that to sync, then add your package. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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