From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgJIW-0000i1-W2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:44:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47A16E03C9; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 13:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from castor.sshunet.nl (castor.sshunet.nl [145.97.192.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE63E03C9 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 13:44:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by castor.sshunet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B0857C005 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:44:07 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at castor.sshunet.nl Received: from castor.sshunet.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (castor.sshunet.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FJndiTTVQ8sH for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:44:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from [145.97.222.96] (96pc222.sshunet.nl [145.97.222.96]) by castor.sshunet.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 8 Mar 2009 14:44:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <49B3CB93.2010707@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:43:47 +0100 From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081231) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] What is a "meta package"? References: <49B3C9CC.6060607@oversi.com> In-Reply-To: <49B3C9CC.6060607@oversi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f73349ed-0180-4f2a-9545-a2bc2fe9336c X-Archives-Hash: 9e2b27c9fe5be4a1e70dd57e39c28122 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > Hi. > i read in > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3 > > Never depend on a meta-package. > So don't depend on gnome-base/gnome, always depend on the specific > libraries like libgnome. > > > Where can I find a definition of this term? > > Is there some equery/qsearch invocation that returns a list of such > packages (installed or available)? > Is there some ebuild setting that marks a package as being a "meta" > package? Does gnome-base/gnome carry this setting? > > Thanks, > Amit > Hi Amit, a meta-package is a package that depends on a group of other packages but doesn't contain any source of itself. Basically it's a shorthand for the entire group for installing from command line. Portage is getting explicit support for groups so I think we then no longer need metapackages. Marijn - -- Sarcasm puts the iron in irony, cynicism the steel. Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML , #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmzy5IACgkQp/VmCx0OL2y1cwCeKLo/u6u6cNhimb6zFXPgW4FO zJwAn0UvF6OzakSuJmYH4P+Cxb75FOF4 =R05+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----