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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