Re: [gentoo-user] License question for jdk

[Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@gmx.de>]

On Saturday, 10. September 2011 17:19:36 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Michael Schreckenbauer writes:
> > On Saturday, 10. September 2011 16:50:30 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > > What you need to do is to tell portage you accept the license by
> > > putting the >=dev-java/... line into /etc/portage/package.license.
> > > Or
> > > you could add the --autounmask-write switch to your emerge command,
> > > and then use etc-update/dispatch-conf/cfg-update or whatever you use
> > > to update the config files.
> > 
> > Ah. This /etc/portage/package.license thing is new to me.
> > I use ACCEPT_LICENSE in make.conf.
> > You know, what's the difference (if any)?
> 
> No, I don't there is any. Just like with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. It's just
> cleaner to have this in package.license I think.
> 
> The man pages for portage and make.conf have some more information on
> this.

Thanks. The difference is, that package.license is per package.
So one could set ACCEPT_LICENSE in make.conf and override this setting for 
some packages in package.license.
Now I wonder, what the use-cases would be?
Why would one accept a specific license for package A, but not for package B?

> 	Wonko

Regards,
Michael