Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-27 Thread Petteri Räty
Petteri Räty wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > >>R Hill wrote: >> >> >>>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> * if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. >>> >>> >>>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that fail >>>under this rule. I'd like to start filing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 26 December 2005 08:24, Petteri Räty wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > > R Hill wrote: > >>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: > >>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. > >> > >>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that > >> fail under this rule. I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 26 December 2005 14:57, Drake Wyrm wrote: > You're going to be hard-pressed to get any kind of consensus on this > issue. Many dev seems to feel that the license belongs there. In some > cases the COPYING, LICENSE, and/or INSTALL files contain, not boilerplate > drivel, but actually uniqu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 26 December 2005 15:02, Petteri Räty wrote: > It's just that usually the > INSTALL file is not really useful unless you are manually installing the > package from sources and then you will have the INSTALL file in there > with the sources. Yeah, and in that case I usually judge it useless

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Petteri Räty
Drake Wyrm wrote: > Petteri R??ty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Petteri R??ty wrote: >> >>>R Hill wrote: >>> Daniel Ahlberg wrote: >* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that fail under thi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing COPYING or LICENSE files

2005-12-26 Thread Drake Wyrm
Petteri R??ty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Petteri R??ty wrote: > > R Hill wrote: > >>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: > >>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. > >> > >>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that fail > >>under this rule. I'd like to start filing