>>>>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2019, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

> On 2019-02-12 20:40, Alec Warner wrote:
>> This is why I continue to advocate for a deliberate choice based on
>> the social contract ("Gentoo is and will remain Free and thus the
>> default should be "-* @FREE" rather than some kind of objective
>> choice based on 'consequences'; which I think just muddle the point.

> Sorry, I don't get this. You understand that a change from

>> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" (active today)

> to

>> ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE"

> is the same like

>> ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"

> Isn't it ("-*" isn't needed; at the moment we say "don't prompt for
> _any license_ except licenses from @EUAL group")?

It is the same when starting from an empty default. IIUC, Portage
does its lookup in the order make.globals, then make.defaults,
then make.conf, so keeping the "-*" would have the advantage that it
overrides the default of previous Portage versions. Otherwise, I don't
see how "-* @FREE" (rather than "@FREE") could cause any harm.

Ulrich