Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jul 30 17:26 Juergen Weigert wrote (shortened):
The point in having /usr/share/doc/licenses is that this establishes one single location where all licenses used in a product are visible.
Might this cause confusion for some users when they find out that they have many special licenses installed but not the software which belongs to those special licenses?
I agree. Moreover I have to say, I'm confused: who should profit from the licenses.rpm packgage? If this is intended for users it's IMHO superfluous: to find what license has some package, users will either use 'rpm -qi' (or equivalent) or go to /usr/share/doc/packages/<pkg>. If this is because of us as distributors, I really don't see any significant advantages (if size question is insignificant). In any case, licenses for not installed products are confusing and I regard the obligation to install such package a bloat.
I.e. what about "my installed licenses" versus "all licenses which are somewhere used by whatever software in the product"?
(Yes, I know, the obvious technical solution is to check to which installed license a symlink points ;-)
Isn't it the same effort as scanning /usr/share/doc/packages for license files (rather than for symlinks pointing to /usr/share/doc/licenses)? Best regards Petr Cerny --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org