On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:17:08PM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote:
Thursday 12 July 2007, Simo Leone wrote: | I still don't see the need. We've never bothered in the past and | it's just making things more complicated, why bother now?
i agree
why making all this mess?
to satisfy the fundamentalists, i would suggest, that you can specify in pacman.conf, what licences you agree to and what licences you do not agree to. then pacman will know what is "allowed" to be installed. whenever a new licence comes up (with a new pkg) pacman would ask: do you agree to licence XYZ? licence XYZ can be found under /path/to/licence if you want to read it. Y/N? and then pacman would add this result to pacman.conf
Featuritis. Another pacman feature, that should not be part of a simple lightweight package manager. A user can query the database for non-free software and just remove it. He has all the tools to do this. Please don't loose track of archlinux/pacman's philosophy. Jürgen