Juergen Weigert wrote: > On Jul 25, 07 15:40:26 +0200, Petr Cerny wrote: >> Juergen Weigert wrote: >>> Due to the symlink, the package has now one more dependency. >>> It is simply an incomplete package, unless licenses.rpm is also installed. >>> If the FSF insists on having a copy in each RPM, we can simply stop doing >>> symlinks for GPL, and still have saved a tree with all the other licenses >>> symlinked. >> As GPL is (by guess) in most of our packages, it wouldn't make sense to >> create license-package without GPL in it. > > Besides saving space on distribuition media, > the license package serves another goal: > It establishes /usr/share/doc/licenses as a central point for license > files. This goal could also be achieved by other means. Open to > suggestions.
And even if FSF doesn't accept our solution. We could just use /usr/share/doc/licenses (+/md5/ab58...586cc) for storing the license of our package. The same file would be just owned by several packages. Plus linking it from our package. OK, not a nice solution, but it might work if the licenses.rpm one fails. Lukas
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