Re: Adopt Debian-style 'common licenses' convention?

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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> The idea behind having %license (and packages actually using it) is
> that now we have the licenses identified and stored in a way that RPM
> controls, instead of simply stored the same way that documentation is
> stored.
> 
> Making RPM do smarter things with those license files is now entirely
> within the domain of RPM or perhaps some file triggers or even (ugh) a
> cron job/timer/whatever.
> 
> So, want to hardlink those files?  Have a package with a file trigger
> on /usr/share/licenses that runs /usr/sbin/hardlink.  Instant space
> savings, though you still have to spend the inodes.  If that's not
> enough, RPM could probably be taught to do practically anything.

If there were a common-licenses package, then perhaps RPMbuild could
automatically compare files tagged with %license to those licenses, and
replace matching files with a link and a dependency on common-licenses?
That should also make the packages smaller, saving some download time
and space on the mirrors.

I can't take on any more work so the idea is free for the taking.

Björn Persson

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