User:Grknight/Drafts/ACCEPT LICENSE

( Proposed new subsection to Handbook:Parts/Installation/Base )

Configuring the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable
All of the Gentoo packages are required to include which license(s) a package falls under. This allows users to accept or decline specific licenses or groups of licenses as they see fit.

Portage uses the ACCEPT_LICENSE variable to determine what packages to allow without prompting the user for the licenses already previously accepted. Exceptions can be made per-package in as well.

The license groups defined in the Gentoo repository are:

