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

Paul Mattal paul at mattal.com
Thu Jul 12 08:49:07 EDT 2007


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

You know, you're brilliant, man.

Yes, this is clearly the place to do this, in my opinion.

- P




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