Bug 541408

Summary:	[Tracker] ebuilds with IUSE=bindist but not restricting binary distribution
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	licenses
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	541412, 541414, 541416, 541418, 541426, 541450, 541452, 541454, 541456, 541464, 541482, 541486, 541488, 541490, 541492, 541494, 541588, 541592, 541594
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2015-02-26 12:15:09 UTC

Ebuilds that have "bindist" in their IUSE should conditionally restrict binary distribution:

RESTRICT="!bindist? ( bindist )"

As usual, no talk in the tracker bug.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2015-02-26 18:01:27 UTC

To clarify, the only effect this will have for users using the Portage default configuration is that Portage may output a warning that the package cannot be redistributed.

Users with ACCEPT_RESTRICT="* -bindist" in their make.conf will no longer be able to emerge the package with USE="-bindist". This is desired, as such users can be expected to care about such license issues.