Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Rick \"Zero Chaos\" Farina wrote:
>
>>> Huh? Savedconfig isn't a solution for the license issue.
>
>> If he doesn't agree to the license he can use savedconfig to not
>> install those firmware packages.
>
> Yes, but ACCEPT_LICENSE wouldn't work. It would still be necessary to
> include all licenses, even for firmware packages that are not
> installed.
>

I'm sure I'm not the only one who really doesn't care about having
ACCEPT_LICENSE work properly for a package full of binary blobs. It
seems like a rather insignificant reason to split the package up.

If some of the licenses involved are particularly offensive to a large
number of people, then it might be worth while to split those
particular files out.