On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:44 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote: > > Do we only add those licenses to define valid names for the LICENSE > > variable? > AFAIK the license variable is not really used (someone correct me if I'm > mistakne, please)
It is used by some games ebuilds, for sure. > > What about all these /usr/share/doc/*/COPYING* files? Are they > > necessary if all licenses are in licenses/ ? > See first point. You want to read the license _before_ installing stuff Actually, I can see the point in not needing to copy these files, as the license is already specified in the ebuild and should be available in $PORTDIR/licenses, so this is a redundancy. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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