[gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around

2012-12-20 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the licenses are required to be present on the system if the corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally remove them. ...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around

2012-12-20 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 20/12/2012 19:19, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: ... well, along those lines, the list of licenses are not pertinent to the system unless the software that relates to them is installed; maybe emerge should automatically during the merge phase ensure the license files are copied to the main system

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around

2012-12-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the licenses are required to be present on the system if the corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around

2012-12-20 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/20/2012 10:19 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the licenses are required to be present on the system if the corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally remove them. ...

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around

2012-12-20 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/2012 03:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the licenses are required to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keeping licenses around

2012-12-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: If only a small subset of licenses require it, then maybe we should just use dodoc on those licenses that require it. Saving all licenses could be overkill. Seems like a reasonable compromise. I would think such licenses