Re: [gentoo-user] Opera-12 license mask warning

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Sunday 31 Jul 2016 11:09:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 31/07/2016 09:56, Mick wrote:
> > I got this after an update yesterday and was left puzzled as to what I am
> > meant to do ...
> > 
> > !!! The following installed packages are masked:
> > - www-client/opera-12.16_p1860-r1::gentoo (masked by: OPERA-12 license(s))
> > A copy of the 'OPERA-12' license is located at
> > '/usr/portage/licenses/OPERA-12'.
> > 
> > Is it a matter of adding in /etc/portage/make.conf:
> >  ACCEPT_LICENSE="OPERA-12"
> > 
> > or am I supposed to go through some other ritual?  Either way, couldn't
> > the
> > above message be more informative to do away with any guessing?
> 
> echo $category/$package $license > /etc/portage/package.license
> 
> I guess it's not listed explicitly in every ebuild with a non-free
> license because you are supposed to know how to unmask stuff on your on
> Gentoo system.
> 
> The info is in the portage man pages

Ahh!  Yes, I had forgotten about that file.  Thank you Alan.

I was following http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0023.html and the 
ACCEPT_LICENSE directive in make.conf as a way of managing licenses, but then 
I found an entry about skype in package.license.  Hmm ...  I wonder who put 
that in there ...  :-)

I think this warning confused me because it installed the package and *then* 
it issued a warning about the license.  Usually the warning comes before, 
requiring user input before it continues with the installation.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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