Re: documenting LICENSE scope and limitations for pkgsrc users

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

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:51:20PM +0100, S.P.Zeidler wrote:
> As far as I can see, in the pkg_add case you can add additional
> licenses by setting PKGSRC_DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in the environment
> (which you can also do by setting PKGSRC_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES, so why does
> it exist?), but you cannot remove licenses from the default list without
> essentially editing source. This is inelegant.
> Are there reasons why we do not let setting of
> PKGSRC_DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES (or DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES if set
> in config files) override the shipped list?

But setting DEFAULT_ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in pkg_install.conf *does*
override the builtin list.

Joerg