Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Stroller schreef: On 26 Dec 2005, at 20:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept or decline it. If user accepts fetching

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
You see that little f there next to the ebuild? It has a fetch restriction. If you look a little ways up it will give you the URL to go to to accept the license and download it. After you download the java thing, move it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ then emerge it. I do this all the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Peper wrote: You see that little f there next to the ebuild? It has a fetch restriction. If you look a little ways up it will give you the URL to go to to accept the license and download it. After you download the java thing, move it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ then emerge it. I do this all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:41:10 -0600, Dale wrote: It's all about reading software license, which noone reads anyway :] I didn't read it on their site either. I don't see what difference it makes really. The difference is that you acknowledged that you had read it, even if you didn't. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Peper schreef: And there are also some packages like cedega, which you must even dowload by torrent :P After you have subscribed (which is the real reason for the fetch restriction)? It's only a 10MB rpm/deb/tgz, why would you have to download it by torrent? In that particular case, Cedega is

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
And there are also some packages like cedega, which you must even dowload by torrent :P After you have subscribed (which is the real reason for the fetch restriction)? It's only a 10MB rpm/deb/tgz, why would you have to download it by torrent? In that particular case, Cedega is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:48:25 +0100 Peper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While writing this i thought about smth: cannot displaying licenses be implemented in emerge? If you want to progress(fetch the file) you must accept displayed license. Maybe sun will be happy with that... Licenses are

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
Click on the SDK and it takes you to a separate page with a long legal license with an accept or decline. Then it triggers the download. Sun's website handles all that, not the target system. Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept or decline it. If user accepts fetching starts... Which would almost certainly break Sun's licence, they want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 20:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept or decline it. If user accepts fetching starts... Which would