From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nixn8-0007wF-Q2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:27:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6841FE0B52; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F79E0B28 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.22.10] (ip68-4-152-120.oc.oc.cox.net [68.4.152.120]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACF51B4161 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B8061F7.8050504@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:28:07 -0800 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100215 Thunderbird/3.0.1 ThunderBrowse/3.2.6.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gentoo Dev Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 39a659b5-7478-464e-bf73-9982ec97b7b9 X-Archives-Hash: 936df20dac8cef7ded4e75804d404b7a Hi, Since portage-2.1.7.x is stable now, with ACCEPT_LICENSE support, we can think about deprecating check_license [1]. This will allow us to avoid using PROPERTIES=interactive in cases when it is due to check_license alone, since anything with a license in the @EULA license group is automatically masked by the default ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" portage configuration [2]. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299095 [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302645 -- Thanks, Zac