Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Add package.license support to profiles

Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:15:47 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel
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On 2025-12-17 10:33:47, Ulrich Müller wrote:
> 
> > Currently profiles does not allow using per-package license unmasking.
> > The only solution is the LICENSE variable, which apply to all the packages.
> 
> What would be the application for this? I understand package.license
> in user configuration, but why would we ever want to unmask nonfree
> per-package licenses in profiles?

I would unmask e.g.

  sys-firmware/intel-microcode intel-ucode

in the custom profile I use at work for all of our intel servers.