Re: [arch-dev-public] Definition of non-free for repo-reorg

Jürgen Hötzel wrote:

Featuritis. Another pacman feature, that should not be part of a simple lightweight package manager.

License issues do need to be handled somewhere. I think we've already chosen to handle them in pacman, by putting all that information into packages. We could separate this out into a separate binary that uses libalpm and acts as a wrapper around real pacman, I suppose, if that would make people feel better. That seems to me like even more complexity for a fairly lightweight feature. - P