Re: Licence handling: next steps

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:55:41AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Given that we likely want to bump the required pkg_install, I am more
> > than willing to add corresponding evaluation support to pkg_admin.
> > It is needed for handling in pkg_add anyway.
> 
> If source building can use pkg_admin to eval the expressions using the
> same code as pkg_add, and it appears soonish, that's a huge win.

We already do the same for processing dependency patterns by calling
pkg_admin pmatch. One big question is whether we want to handle
migration of ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES to pkg_install.conf automatically or
not, personally I tend to prefer manual processing and explicit checking
for this.

Joerg