Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

On 20.2.2010 14.28, Zac Medico wrote:
> 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

We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=4 don't
define the function any more and the Portage version will be
sufficiently new to have ACCEPT_LICENSE.

Regards,
Petteri