Allen Brooker (AllenJB) » license http://allenjb.me.uk Programming yesterday was about developers vs idiots. Now the developers are the idiots. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:45:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Portage 2.2 and License Management http://allenjb.me.uk/?p=180 http://allenjb.me.uk/?p=180#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:12:36 +0000 AllenJB http://allenjb.me.uk/?p=180 Portage 2.2 has recently introduced a new feature that allows users to select what licenses they want to allow on their install. The interface still needs some work (for example, Portage needs to explain when it has “ignored” packages due to license during updates) so that users don’t, for example, get confused as to why their system suddenly wants icedtea instead of sun-jdk. Other than these fairly minor issues, it seems to be working well so far.

There’s an article on Gentoo Wiki that explains this new feature from a users point of view and how to tailor it to your individual tastes.

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