An idea for RPM -> License Agreement support

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Fri Jun 1 01:59:07 UTC 2007


>>>>> "JS" == Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> writes:

JS> Older versions of the flash-plugin package provided by
JS> macromedia.mplug.org had a technical solution to this using a post
JS> install script which would open an EULA click-through window with
JS> a timeout if X display was detected. Unattended package installs
JS> and upgrades would still work, but the setup command would have to
JS> be run later manually to run through the agreement to the license
JS> before the plugin could be used.

And of course, intelligent people just did "touch /etc/flash.license"
at system build time, so users weren't bothered by useless crap.

 - J<




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