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 1NjKwE-0004L4-LQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49C4AE0E0C for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from petteriraty.eu (host.petteriraty.eu [188.40.80.83]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E8DE0C33 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:36:53 +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 70B7930805 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B81B582.2070306@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:36:50 -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> <4B816881.8050608@gentoo.org> <4B81B0FC.60801@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4B81B0FC.60801@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 81f654a3-5df1-4860-93f9-a87539b2913c X-Archives-Hash: df669245dfff7e0db4c0247cd9e1937a On 21.2.2010 14.17, Zac Medico wrote: > 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 >> >> We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=3D4 do= n't >> define the function any more and the Portage version will be >> sufficiently new to have ACCEPT_LICENSE. >=20 > 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. Likely there wouldn't be any breakage with it doing it in EAPI 3 but it would be against the eclass contract of not changing expected behavior. Would be a win-win situation if we would get EAPI 4 :) Regards, Petteri