On 12/20/2012 10:19 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 20/12/12 01:12 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> What about /usr/portage/licenses, for example? Some of the >> licenses are required to be present on the system if the >> corresponding software is installed. So users cannot legally remove >> them. > > > ... well, along those lines, the list of licenses are not pertinent > to the system unless the software that relates to them is installed; > maybe emerge should automatically during the merge phase ensure the > license files are copied to the main system in say /var/lib/licenses > or similar?
If only a small subset of licenses require it, then maybe we should just use dodoc on those licenses that require it. Saving all licenses could be overkill. -- Thanks, Zac
