Re: [gentoo-project] changing the default of ACCEPT_LICENSE in portage

[Zac Medico]

On 07/30/2013 08:56 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 08:28 AM, hasufell wrote:
>> I don't see any conflict between requiring the user to accept unfree
>> licenses explicitly and our philosophy.
>
> I'm not arguing this point.
>
>> In fact, we are already forcing interaction with that variable via "-@EULA".
>
> The only reason for this is that it is a means to ensure that the EULA
> will is displayed by default, in order to respect the wishes of the
> copyright owners.

For those not aware of the history, it should also be noted that we used
to have a check_license function in eutils.eclass explicitly for this
purpose, and ebuilds that used it had to set PROPERTIES="interactive"
which was much more annoying that the license masking approach that
replaced it.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac