Re: [gentoo-user] Re: package.keywords

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:17:16 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > All package.* files in /etc/portage can be replaced a directories,
> > then all the files in that directory are considered as a whole.

> For some reason, my light bulb has still not came on so here comes some
> questions.  I would create /etc/portage/package.keywords then inside
> that another directory or a set of files?

A set of files.

>  Say, one named KDE4 to put
> all of KDE4 and it's little friends and then another for some other set
> of packages?

Exactly. The portage man page explains it well.

/etc/portage/
   Any file in this directory that begins with "package." can be more than
   just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that
   directory will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name
   and summed together as if it were a single file. 

   Example: 
   /etc/portage/package.keywords/common
   /etc/portage/package.keywords/e17
   /etc/portage/package.keywords/kde

> Is this sort of like the sets thing which I am still
> curious about?

Not really, it's just an alternative way of organising the package.* data.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Asking whether machines can think is like asking whether submarines can
swim.

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