"Wil Reichert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on  Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:38:57 -0700:

> Every time you re-install the -bin package you need to re-accept their
> license (er whatever, registaration perhaps?) at first run.  Annoys me
> enough to compile it myself.

Ugh, I've obviously never tried it or I'd have been saying no way, 
myself.  I'd have to see it but normally anything software that has 
anything like that, even registration, is way to much like slaveryware 
for my taste, and it's gone off my system faster than it downloaded in 
the first place!

For awhile imagemagick required MSCorefonts, with a similar EULA/
whatever, and (after I filed a bug) I put the corefonts package in 
package.provided and that was it.  It didn't actually need it anyway, 
except for a specific operation I never tried, at runtime.  Now they 
control that with the truetype USE flag IIRC, so I have it in package.use 
with that flag turned off -- the only package on the system with it 
turned off.

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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


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