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

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 02/21/2010 09:08 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
> 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.

That's a good idea. However, we may want to deprecate check_license
it starting with EAPI=3 since the corresponding portage versions
already support ACCEPT_LICENSE.
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Thanks,
Zac