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

[Aaron Griffin]

On 7/12/07, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6510