Re: pkg/42991 (p7zip - Makefile (licenses) broken)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42991; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/42991 (p7zip - Makefile (licenses) broken)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:17:13 +0000

 On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:30:06AM +0000, Robert Doerfler wrote:
  >  That's it. If more than one license is needed to be accepted it should
  >  list all the licenses which are missing and not just some " license"
  >  or ``license''.
 
 It's trying to use "license" as an example, but it's horribly unclear.
 
  >  If there's just one missing license the output is ok, why shouldn't it
  >  work for more than one?
 
 The real reason is that the boolean logic on licenses feature was only
 added recently.
 
 The good reasonn is that as Joerg pointed out to name exact sets of
 licenses to enable you need a boolean satisfiability solver, which
 though possible in principle is not really a winning idea for
 implementing in make for pkgsrc.
 
 Something like what I suggested should be feasible; it will need to
 wait until 2010Q1 is branched though.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost