• [gentoo-user] Making waves with package licences

    From Peter Humphrey@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 9 16:40:01 2023
    Hello list,

    I had an interesting one today: app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle on a ~amd64 box was to be updated, but it couldn't because the licence had changed from PUEL to PUEL-11. That one change caused another 35 packages to be
    dropped because of conflicting dependencies. I needed a few minutes to find the problem, and it was easily fixed, but I was interested to see that such a small licence change could spread consequences so far.

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    Regards,
    Peter.

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