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On 11/21/2015 01:36 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, everyone.
>
> Currently PMS defines two variables that are being repeatedly
> abused to access repository data in unpredictable and breaking
> manners -- PORTDIR and ECLASSDIR. They both reference only
> so-called 'master repository', are permitted in source builds and
> src_* phases only.
>
> For quite some time, QA is monitoring their use and repeatedly
> reporting abuses and spec violations. I'd like to run a joint QA &
> PMS team effort in cleaning up those variables for sane
> multi-repository support or banning them altogether. For this
> reason, I would like to know your opinion.
>
>
> Licenses [1] ------------
>
> So far, the most common use of ${PORTDIR} was to access the
> licenses subdirectory. That has a number of issues -- most
> importantly, it fails when the license is provided by another
> repository. It is also unusable in binary packages.
>
> So far I see two major possibilities here. We can either decide
> that:
>
> a. ebuilds don't need to access licenses directly and if they do,
> the licenses are usually included in distfiles or can be obtained
> independently of ebuild tree, or
>
> b. we provide a proper, safe mechanism for obtaining licenses that
> works with multiple repositories and binary packages. In
> particular, I was thinking of establishing a LICENSEDIR that would
> contain copies or symlinks to all needed licenses, both in source
> and binary installs.
>
> [snip]
>
I have no opinions on the others since I'm still rather inexperienced,
but LICENSEDIR seems like a sane solution to the licenses problem and
should be able to handle the multi-repo use case.
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