Louis Chauvet <[email protected]> writes: > On 12/17/25 10:33, Ulrich Müller wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025, Louis Chauvet wrote: >> >>> Currently profiles does not allow using per-package license unmasking. >>> The only solution is the LICENSE variable, which apply to all the packages. >> What would be the application for this? I understand package.license >> in user configuration, but why would we ever want to unmask nonfree >> per-package licenses in profiles?
Profiles aren't just for the type we use in ::gentoo. They are often used for custom deployments to different machine types in a fleet. > > My goal is to create my own custom profile to use the same set of > packages, version, use between my laptop and my desktop. > > I have some non-free packages (linux-firmware, Saleae, > intel-microcode), so for me that make sense to have a package.license > file in the profile. I think it's a reasonable usecase indeed. > > For information, I also opened a pull request on Codeberg [1] because > I wasn’t sure if the mailing list was active. > > [1]:https://codeberg.org/gentoo/portage/pulls/1
