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 1MqmVF-0005FI-Cz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:28:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1266E0871; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f220.google.com (mail-fx0-f220.google.com [209.85.220.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5DEE0871 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm20 with SMTP id 20so1452064fxm.14 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:28:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=i23ontxOhnFLR1xq9xBQ8sC/tRaQD1WxUFg+0ICyISE=; b=j96gkRZYdsfjSKtcyWlYRs+KKtHFFtzGN7oCP0tEriSC5rd9sq57cRbmBRaUTSHIqw 1jo7l6omF7l70N3zDafdBO0yn7MiKYZCW4zWxqF88J5q7Lge+i0rYeEFaNHfqPlCDl/D 0vcrA6u5ZH7JJvS3yocu/TVELq6GSV0TMeLEQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=sW1TWilIw4h+QcqHmBWAvJn/OSUtDfbcz6jFnNUbrO/BtogSqqrH5Wai1DfLvM0WMx S86TdQkITLcg73gl5dh+ZaWUhSbWYpKbwD1HAw0eoD+/iOv/Gl0ueuPkkCkBwTWCVszQ VcxFBFekX63b3SBkh5ZHD0kWRLdzhkhulfoG0= Received: by 10.86.169.25 with SMTP id r25mr2785691fge.17.1253791727002; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm226466fge.12.2009.09.24.04.28.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:28:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] QT4 Development Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:28:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (Linux/2.6.31r4; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) References: <93d30e950909240301i134a58dau9fca4bd2ee95c7d0@mail.gmail.com> <200909241233.00491.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <93d30e950909240413of116fccud8c6ff9d56ecf1b3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <93d30e950909240413of116fccud8c6ff9d56ecf1b3@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200909241328.43390.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7f1f0c00-7b01-4b4a-9356-bb9529b00874 X-Archives-Hash: 97b67ebfa944475e0903430f3f897300 On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> wrote: > >> > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > just install the qt4 set. Meta packages are being phased out. > >> > >> Not sure if I understand what you mean. I thought sets only exist for > >> world and system? > >> > >> > Or unmask the meta package. /etc/portage/package.unmask. > >> > >> That's what I want to avoid since apparently this meta package gets > >> removed in the future. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Marco > > > > so what? it really does not matter if it is there or not. And no - with > > 2.2* portage there are many more sets than just world and system. You can > > even easily create your own. > > Well, I try to avoid installing such packages to not have migration > issues later. you won't. The meta package is just a wrapper around splits. If it goes away - so what? the splits still remain and are still updated. Only depclean might screw you - in that case just install them via set. > > And, yes, portage 2.2* apparently supports many more sets, but portage > 2.2* is still masked and I don't know if there is a potental risk to > use it already. > and as long as portage 2.2 is masked, metas will stay around ;)