Marius Mauch wrote:
> Ok, as there is currently a lot of work going on for GLEP 23
> (licese based visibility filtering aka ACCEPT_LICENSE) the topic of
> license groups came up, in particular the way how they should be
> (technically) defined.
> 
> The simplest way is a line based format
>       <groupname> <license1> ... <licenseN>
> however this doesn't allow for any addition of metadata (for example
> descriptions to explain the purpose of a group), these (if wanted) would
> have to be defined in another file. The alternative would be to use a
> more complex file format, for example so called ini-style
> 
> [groupname]
> licenses=license1 license2 ... licenseN
> description=Sample license group
> constains_stupid_licenses=1

Some way to express metadata makes sense, but ini-style doesn't fit in
with any existing configuration format portage (in the broader sense,
not the sys-apps/portage sense) uses (make.conf, metadata.xml, etc) --
does it?

Thanks,
Donnie

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