On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 13:22 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Michał Górny wrote: > > > Should we really warn about a package that (in its default > > > configuration) can only be installed if the user accepts non-free > > > licenses? > > That's one of the reasons it's only a warning and not a USE flag. > > Still, "Gentoo will never depend upon a piece of software or metadata > unless it conforms to [a free license]" (Social Contract). > > If you really think that you must have that message, can you at least > downgrade it to einfo or elog? That would still be very visible, given > that it's in the pretend phase where there tends to be little output. >
Can we please put users above silly politics? Gentoo 'does not depend' on any non-free package to print the warning. If people have hardware that requires non-free firmware, the least we can do is point out where to get this firmware from. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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