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 1Er9FE-0001t2-LM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:27:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBR7QNGt031193; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:26:23 GMT Received: from cubert.e-centre.net (morbo.e-centre.net [66.154.82.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBR7NK5g025339 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:23:21 GMT Received: from [10.3.1.19] (helo=barracuda2.stayonline.net) by cubert.e-centre.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Er9B2-00014k-49 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 02:23:20 -0500 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1135668199-7316-673-0 X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.3.1.19:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi Received: from et-pdx-2.site.stayonline.net (unknown [65.200.64.131]) by barracuda2.stayonline.net (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id B2B3CA8666 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 02:23:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from nightcrawler ([172.16.1.202]) by et-pdx-2.site.stayonline.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jBR7N75j002102 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:23:07 GMT Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:23:16 -0800 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Message-ID: <20051227072316.GP5809@nightcrawler.e-centre.net> References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> <200512270208.25814.vapier@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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hXth9cGL35Nvpk4x" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512270208.25814.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at stayonline.net X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=4.0 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.02, rules version 3.0.6645 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- X-Archives-Salt: 14830ee8-5948-435f-997a-28c750f487f4 X-Archives-Hash: bd798f456db9a8c14e79501be4996427 --hXth9cGL35Nvpk4x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:08:25AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 02:01, R Hill wrote: > > AFAIK most licenses need to be included with the distribution of the > > source, not installed on the system after compilation. But I could be > > wrong too. >=20 > anyone who installs a program in portage already has a copy of the licens= e on=20 > their system ... $PORTDIR/licenses/ Assuming the tree is locally available (remote, or binpkg's used to=20 generate images)... Lets put it this way; if ebuilds are specifically filtering it out on=20 their own, nobody who wants the licenses install has them. If they're installed via the ebuild, and removed via INSTALL_MASK,=20 everybody can get what they want. So why nuke by default? ~harring --hXth9cGL35Nvpk4x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsOvjvdBxRoA3VU0RAudYAKDIYaN5VXcvVQKd3WcjksVbaV+tTgCff34B /KkCbbHhqCYNh5XNbmgFh+A= =pVE7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hXth9cGL35Nvpk4x-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list