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 5FBD8138247 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F6FCE0B46; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-f41.google.com (mail-vb0-f41.google.com [209.85.212.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0579E0AF5 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id p14so7446051vbm.28 for ; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:27:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=uVjpMi/1XhtNW+yvXPWcWpouJEwC23MgHR1QtOhxaMg=; b=05o8bXswskHHO5+PhTKa9MVDIcStj2dv/ENRJXRU7zb35zG8Kzuu7KQgJG/bpXzDWd 7c8waBGqfek4c7nkcXQ78wHvJW/+qTj3Jep/2SCguLyltUw9u/PHFH8EQxmiChCDoMRi rkWoz812Rtjps8ZrzEYxRVNT40nctm+yA3fbYMhvS6K3zqll+nYzoMihnlYoPdmxU2ZS 6P1zuu1uxSclvC3xq5980cjPFwjNq9LUUwKdCpkWuu3r45+K7SmILB5L7zZ3JwSlvjvv OmbFyCJQYnpOjlqrlQTBJJWpPLRVtNJ98ASkoefQKIQ9oSXkOO4opFrjHfbSqMPyP8NV TO8g== 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 X-Received: by 10.52.254.232 with SMTP id al8mr4891430vdd.56.1388687246885; Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:27:26 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.112.99 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:27:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21189.44366.754407.921500@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <21188.38566.180273.751353@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20140102065006.59a2bad9@caribou.gateway.pace.com> <52C58F8E.9050005@gentoo.org> <20140102172822.617e6452@gentp.lnet> <21189.39321.229948.547287@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20140102180258.477e0963@gentp.lnet> <21189.44366.754407.921500@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 13:27:26 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: z4IsxW9QUb5-98ofuJ1P2MromSg Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: new global USE flag "srcdist" From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: bc2e779d-6435-412f-9d95-dad2754a4917 X-Archives-Hash: 25b5f367b37e61a49636644bb9ab0df6 On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > This is not primarily about distfiles mirroring, about about giving > users a choice what distfiles they will accept on their systems (for > whatever reasons, e.g. legal or philosophical). Besides, not all users > are under the same legislation, which may affect their choice. ++ One could argue we don't need LICENSE at all since RESTRICT=mirror already tells you something. Gentoo is about choice and this is just one more choice we're giving users. The proposal is a NOOP for anybody who doesn't do anything special, and those who want to use the new flag can do so. It also helps document the state of the tree so that when we look at some ebuild and wonder why it is set to RESTRICT=mirror we have more clues. Rich