Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage and sets

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

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 05:33:40 James wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > Sets are a replacement for meta-packages, so your set would contain the
> > packages you need. If it did contain kde-meta, then it would install all
> > of KDE, because that is a dependency of kde-meta.
>
> OK, color me "dense", but, if we are assuming  there should be
> a smooth (easy) transition from kde-meta to kde "sets" I'm
> missing something. The posted lists (sets) do not look anything
> like the way kde-meta is organized.

The kde-testing overlay ships with at least 50 pre-defined sets, and in there 
you will find a set that maps to every -meta ebuild that we have been using 
for so long.

As to why there isn't such a thing with portage, I don't know. You would have 
to ask the kde ebuild maintainers. But if you would like to have this 
collection of sets and haven't added the overlay, I'd happily send you a 
tarball of all the kde sets.


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