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 1NjFb8-0000fM-22 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:28:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B38B7E11D5 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:28:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (host.petteriraty.eu [188.40.80.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F6FE0CE2 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Petteri-Ratys-MacBook-Pro.local (d207-6-248-62.bchsia.telus.net [207.6.248.62]) by petteriraty.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 82AE930822 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B816881.8050608@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:08:17 -0800 From: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 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@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ACCEPT_LICENSE and deprecation of check_license References: <4B8061F7.8050504@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4B8061F7.8050504@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b74801f9-e6bc-4f35-8b82-f0f504586bbf X-Archives-Hash: 270245ee23786faf6fc9b524a44a853c 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