On 02/21/2010 09:08 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: > On 20.2.2010 14.28, Zac Medico wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since portage-2.1.7.x is stable now, with ACCEPT_LICENSE support, we >> can think about deprecating check_license [1]. This will allow us to >> avoid using PROPERTIES=interactive in cases when it is due to >> check_license alone, since anything with a license in the @EULA >> license group is automatically masked by the default >> ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -...@eula" portage configuration [2]. >> >> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299095 >> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302645 > > We could handle it like deprecating ebeep and epause. With EAPI=4 don't > define the function any more and the Portage version will be > sufficiently new to have ACCEPT_LICENSE.
That's a good idea. However, we may want to deprecate check_license it starting with EAPI=3 since the corresponding portage versions already support ACCEPT_LICENSE. -- Thanks, Zac
