From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D792138247 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 017D9E0A80; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14DC1E08D9 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:43:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-72-95-221-222.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net [72.95.221.222]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zerochaos) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3AA533F759 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 02:43:56 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52C4D26F.3000208@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:43:59 -0500 From: "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 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: new global USE flag "srcdist" References: <21188.38566.180273.751353@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <52C4C610.1000303@gentoo.org> <52C4CB5A.4080108@gentoo.org> <52C4D18A.5010908@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <52C4D18A.5010908@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 03851220-430a-45b8-8b5a-56f9eeb5cf24 X-Archives-Hash: d708437b648aa546b0c8cfb7828dccf4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 09:40 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/01/2014 09:13 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> >>> What use case is there for having the LICENSE apply to anything else? >> >> Some of us do redistribute the entire source package, so it does matter. >> If it doesn't matter to you as a user then you can always leave it >> unset and you remain completely oblivious to the change. > > I know, but if you take a pristine source tarball from upstream and > distribute it to some third party, why should portage be involved? Portage fetches the files for me, and I assume if I am not prompted for license issues when it does, then I can redist the source and bins. Clearly that is not always the case. - -Zero > > More metadata about the licenses is obviously a good thing and I'm not > saying we shouldn't figure out a way to make it available in the tree > (we should). But LICENSE is first and foremost a user interface to the > package manager. I don't like the idea of overloading the portage user > interface for use cases entirely outside the purview of portage. > > My objection is not strong, in any case, if this solves some real > problem and is the best available way to do it. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSxNJvAAoJEKXdFCfdEflK2TsP/iIsgz/DQ8DEG7er+aqslg3z LJFbEQ0/lBJ5/eSWrDcPeFhgHrHkXIuliZFgQJ2saMqLY9FnyZA1vIHwOIHlC14E hs43qyU2rfT2VwzrUIMjvwOBP9EzDFi/dSEYWxy9WnLKSEWgXADGNLMw42LujAGg s2f3UFTULdTaQUr9lhrbx1Vh91WtJrUBTkbkks0u2yuJSHZBMNFDrPqJ/LhqjHda ZlhW18RXH/dsy/gCtYBfKysiiiY/jiKiAGMnVW5N597LO2jT7G3BBvexYe3tIyFi 96jhGLXQB2G1GzsNGw9f09VoCIvRz2OfXNZhHzMtDwIbjAvNxof9uAlHirAtlm7s 9K6OTdVt/zPsakosiCASQZm1mmde1rF0zy3x5/AKm6l9O3fuLZlJaQ60oJsVGKie z9FPJW9tJRRGNdHBzoL3PBuvavKQKlVF8IbhpE/7BCJQl5hcUmaV1K0when0FiGH koOLo4iR6llPfTMk17GMQ+RQINA9uauFJoSemUSjgM4haMxveZ8QcN+nXvJDUDX6 vbd4ywprX9S4/O5whk1M99CzvUJkjb9WjqGYtZgzxQy+THwnJ/O8CPCXSRa5Ig0Z KehsdJ6tf2U6y6BxBFSNaOTM56kSNijBg8hhtBXJEE/7JB+AEVDmRV3+psXIZSa9 PcJPp65fClCzPTa7fWU0 =CklE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----