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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GQ5Eg-00035o-G4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:47:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8KGkLXY022405; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:46:21 GMT Received: from miummr0mt02.um.ced.h3g.it ([62.13.171.111]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8KGgqpV017207 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:42:52 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (miumgu0vp03.um.ced.h3g.it [10.216.57.163]) by miummr0mt02.um.ced.h3g.it (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id ABT29199; Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:42:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:43:04 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 52 - GLEP 23 revisited Message-ID: <20060920184304.6b91acfe@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <1158761101.9521.8.camel@sys947.dtic.mil> References: <451127AB.4060202@gentoo.org> <1158761101.9521.8.camel@sys947.dtic.mil> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.19; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary="Sig_acgMdcGFcddXDkTgQW/X_h="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 56d9c8cf-3734-4ab6-9dcc-439e87ff5326 X-Archives-Hash: e63852ab139feb0fe8bea20bcd2839d1 --Sig_acgMdcGFcddXDkTgQW/X_h= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:05:00 -0400 Michael Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:36 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: >=20 > > Every license which a package in the portage tree depends on gets a > > package in the ``txt-licenses/`` category. Its ebuild must install > > the license text to ``/usr/shared/licenses/``. The initial version > > shall be 1 if there is no version specified. >=20 > This doesn't make sense to me. I have a copy of every license used in > the portage tree already in /usr/portage/licenses - why dup that > again? Plus the copies in /usr/share/doc. > We already have an existing LICENSE keywording in the ebuilds, > why not just focus on patching portage to allow a make.conf variable > for allowed licenses and block based on that?=20 Sounds good enough to me. Perhaps two variables; ALLOW_LICENSES and DENY_LICENSES (with wildcard support). --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_acgMdcGFcddXDkTgQW/X_h= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFEW+d9G2S8dekcG0RAnoDAJ9BSbl0Kl51wCm/ncBJipEl+9IjtwCeOYSO mNpx1fPx+5hGaGHmQQ/PS0Q= =cc4u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_acgMdcGFcddXDkTgQW/X_h=-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list