On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 03:57:55PM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:20:39PM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > iputils doesn't do a make install, and if it did, it would still be > > reasonable if that didn't copy the license, since the users who run that > > themselves don't need it. > > I don't really see the big difference (regarding this issue) in > manually installing a package or using Gentoo Portage for installing > it? > > Why would people who install it via a script in Gentoo Portage want > the useless files installed - when they wouldn't want them installed > when doing a manual install?
Right, end users don't need them, regardless of package manager. But as I mentioned in my previous message, ebuilds are not only for end users.
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