On Apr 2, 2009, at 12:26, Rainer Müller wrote:
On 2009-04-02 19:17, David Evans wrote:
For some ports, licensing is dependent on variant selected. For
instance, ffmpeg
is GPL by default but is LGPL if the +no_gpl variant is specified
causing GPL modules to be disabled.
Good catch.
This would work in these cases if it is acceptable to declare
licenses
in a variant definition clause.
Should be no problem to use licenses-delete and licenses-append in
variants. But my proposed NoMirror or mirror.restricted would
always be
for all distfiles, as I don't think we need to make it more specific.
Here's an idea: we could make a variable mirror.only, being similar
to the existing variable extract.only. If not all files may be
mirrored, you can list the ones that may be mirrored in mirror.only,
or set mirror.only to empty if none may be mirrored.
That doesn't address binary files, since I don't know what filenames
our binaries would have. And I think a simple yes/no flag would be
more appropriate for whether binaries may be distributed, since it
could vary by variant, so it would be most simple to be able to set
that flag in the particular variant. e.g. for freetype:
variant bytecode description {Build bytecode interpreter into the
TrueType driver} {
create_binaries no
...
}
I don't like "mirror.restricted yes" to restrict mirroring; I'd
rather make it a positive statement, like "mirror.allowed no" or
"distfiles.mirror no". "mirror.restricted yes" feels like having a
checkbox that says "[X] Don't mirror" (read: "Yes, don't mirror");
checkboxes (or other Booleans) with negative wording are confusing.
Simper: "[ ] Mirror"
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