[packagekit] Handling of License Prompts

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 14:38:37 PDT 2007


On 10/09/2007, Justin Haygood <jhaygood at reaktix.com> wrote:
> They can, considering they are standard RPMs, but it's a whole legal grey
> area.. they didn't agree to any EULA, and the packages (third party non
> open-source binaries) can't easily be changed to prompt the user to agree to
> them at runtime.

Being blunt, sorry, but I don't think broken proprietary software
should cause the API design to be completely reworked.

Packages _have_ to be installed silently by the daemon.

Richard.



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