From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqzKU-0000to-3y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:52:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBQKpSXv029476; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:51:28 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBQKmMYI025540 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:48:23 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EqzGY-0005hx-Hv for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:48:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 13165 invoked from network); 26 Dec 2005 15:48:05 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 26 Dec 2005 15:48:05 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:48:28 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <4381C1CA.7020408@gentoo.org> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512261548.28369.vapier@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBQKmMYI025540 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jBQKpSZZ029476 X-Archives-Salt: 5df7339c-735f-4e57-b70b-e833ed5f0e11 X-Archives-Hash: b9ad3dd64251a0f41be56f308e64b690 On Monday 26 December 2005 08:24, Petteri R=E4ty wrote: > Petteri R=E4ty wrote: > > R Hill wrote: > >>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: > >>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. > >> > >>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds tha= t > >> fail under this rule. I'd like to start filing patches for some of = the > >> packages in this list so I'm interested in knowing what's worth fixi= ng > >> and what's being pedantic. > > > > Not a blocker but just useless. Filing patches for ebuilds doing this= is > > greatly appreciated by at least me. > > So is there a policy about [not] installing the COPYING or LICENSE file= s > already? If there isn't one, I propose we make a decision about this to > have uniform behaviour across the tree. there isnt one but i'm all for not installing COPYING/LICENSE/ABOUT-NLS f= iles i dont mind the INSTALL/etc... files because often they contain informati= on=20 that is useful for things other than just configure/make -mike --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list