On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Xavi Soler <xavi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My intention is to know the number of non-free packages installed on my > system. In Debian I can use 'vrms' [1]. I think Arch has nothing similar, but > I can start programming an application like 'vrms' (maybe using libalpm or > calling pacman directly). > > My first test has been typing: > > $ pacman -Q | pacman -Qi | less > > and reading carefully the license fields: most (BSDs and MITs specially) > say 'custom'. The big problem I've found is that, quite often, I read the > word 'none' there, but I can't understant how can it happen in packages > stored in official repos. There are a lot of packages without license field. > > I could do a heavy research to know which packages include a license field and > which don't, and then warn their mantainers. But it would be a waste of time. A waste of time we've already done. We know which packages don't have licenses - we even have a huge todo list of them. We'll get to them at some point.
