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authormaxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>2018-11-16 22:01:34 +0000
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Manual.md: document metapackage license
This will raise eyebrowns of people and they will say: "Why just not setting the license= field in the first place ?"
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- `meta` For `meta-packages`, i.e packages that only install local files or simply
depend on additional packages. This build style does not install
dependencies to the root directory, and only checks if a binary package is
-available in repositories.
+available in repositories. If your meta-package doesn't include any files
+which thus have and require no license, then you should also set
+`license="metapackage"`.
- `R-cran` For packages that are available on The Comprehensive R Archive
Network (CRAN). The build style requires the `pkgname` to start with