Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Eclass for gnome-python* split

["Arun Raghavan" <arunisgod@gmail.com>]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Christian Faulhammer <opfer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> "Arun Raghavan" <arunisgod@gmail.com>:
>
>> Feedback and comments (and even brickbats ;)) on the eclass are
>> invited.
>
>  * Don't install the COPYING file via the DOCS variable.
>  * The LICENSE should be kept per ebuild in my opinion

Changes made and committed -- thanks!

There was one interesting observation while I was looking at the
license for the gtkspell module. gtkspell-2 is licensed GPL-2, but
gtkspell-3 (which is not yet released and has only recently picked up
a little steam upstream) is licensed LGPL-2.1. Based on this
gtkspell-python needs to be conditionally licensed based on which
version of gtkspell it is linked against (GPL-2 if against gtkspell-2,
LGPL-2.1 if against gtkspell-3).

Something like:

if has_version =dev-python/gtkspell-2*; then
    LICENSE="GPL-2"
else
    LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
fi

There is currently *no* way to express this in an ebuild without
invalidating the cache. For now this is just a theoretical problem,
but worthy of consideration nonetheless.

Cheers!
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