Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Well, I disagree. I want to install almost all of the KDE stuff,
> but eg. not the PPP things, as I've got not use for that on that
> system. But I still would like my world file *NOT* to be cluttered
> with a gazillion of kde packages.
>
> The current system absolutely does not handle that just fine.

Hmmm, well that's mostly just too bad.

The devs built the ebuilds to work the way the work because that's the 
sanest approach when your universe is all the users that there are.

You are perfectly free to copy those ebuilds to your local overlay, wrap 
the DEPENDs in USE checks to give you the behaviour you want. Then you 
can publish them to your website and supply instructions for interested 
users to add them to layman. Then anyone that wants what you want can 
get it off you. Good way to get a taste of what it takes to maintain 
ebuilds for a huge task like KDE (I do it for e17. It's a ball-ache 
sometimes). 

But the portage tree builds are never going to do what you are asking.

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Alan McKinnon
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