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 1ErF5Z-0002qT-E8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:42:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBRDdlxF013799; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:39:47 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 jBRDbjPL022589 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:37:45 GMT Received: from cp237988-a.mill1.nb.home.nl ([84.29.235.69] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1ErF2q-0004VZ-Dq for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:39:16 +0000 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:40:29 +0100 From: Harald van =?utf-8?Q?D=C4=B3k?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Installing COPYING or LICENSE files Message-ID: <20051227134029.GA2461@gentoo.org> References: <20051114071225.57DE92D8249@caddie.localnet> <43AFEF18.8020403@gentoo.org> <20051226135709.GB12305@phaenix.haell.com> <200512261521.22303.carlo@gentoo.org> <20051227085357.GA4151@gentoo.org> <43B11839.4060804@gentoo.org> <20051227112039.GA18545@gentoo.org> <20051227145755.GB22121@dmz.brixandersen.dk> 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="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051227145755.GB22121@dmz.brixandersen.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 60d2987e-125a-4523-959e-41265238803b X-Archives-Hash: 66f26432b629c7b58fd3b21e62aafded --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:20:39PM +0100, Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > > iputils doesn't do a make install, and if it did, it would still be > > reasonable if that didn't copy the license, since the users who run that > > themselves don't need it. >=20 > I don't really see the big difference (regarding this issue) in > manually installing a package or using Gentoo Portage for installing > it? >=20 > Why would people who install it via a script in Gentoo Portage want > the useless files installed - when they wouldn't want them installed > when doing a manual install? Right, end users don't need them, regardless of package manager. But as I mentioned in my previous message, ebuilds are not only for end users. --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDsURNwnQyISwouHwRAqxxAJ9GwgXlRJNomTN5hpy5wBof7xRZ8wCgtMgR /alnldRmK7KZ3uLE5+C9FRg= =UwPT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list