From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Opera-12 license mask warning
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 11:09:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd7e8a05-4334-ffa9-718c-bd2bc6956da3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2053968.dJGdGyr7hk@dell_xps>
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
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-31 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-31 7:56 [gentoo-user] Opera-12 license mask warning Mick
2016-07-31 9:09 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2016-07-31 9:45 ` Mick
2016-07-31 10:27 ` Andrew Savchenko
2016-07-31 10:39 ` Mick
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