On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:44 AM, James Rayner <iphitus@iphitus.org> wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Thayer Williams <thayer@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 5/21/08, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
However, now that you mentioned swt, it brings up a good point. We can't do this for things like flashplugin just yet. So, should I create some sort of list of packages to NEVER generate sources for?
I think it would be a good idea to implement a blacklist. A lot of factors may warrant its use (size, license, version, etc.)
It's a script, so you could just source the PKGBUILD and check the license=() variable for GPL.
I don't check that on purpose. Our non-GPL licensed packages are fairly small compared to the GPL ones, and these source things actually have some utility: it allows anyone to build a package entirely offline. I think it'd be better to blacklist this stuff than to whitelist licenses.