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 1NjKvl-0004I5-3H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:09:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB5AEE0E68 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC7FE08E8 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:15:56 +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 96D941B4066 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B81B0FC.60801@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:17:32 -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 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> <4B816881.8050608@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4B816881.8050608@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e7c09bc5-fe47-4347-ae1e-ff536b596b63 X-Archives-Hash: afc6d47b08bc867d8d1dbce273d7bf4d On 02/21/2010 09:08 AM, Petteri R=C3=A4ty 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=3Dinteractive 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=3D"* -@EULA" portage configuration [2]. >> >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D299095 >> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D302645 >=20 > We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=3D4 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=3D3 since the corresponding portage versions already support ACCEPT_LICENSE. --=20 Thanks, Zac