On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:29:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> That works for the case where the software is managed by portage,
> which is likely 99.9999% of what's on Gentoo systems worldwide. It
> doesn't work however for the odd case where I write some little
> program which requires a library (ta-lib in my portage file) and I
> don't write an ebuild to build it. I've never bothered to learn to do
> my own ebuilds but at some level it would be a good idea, and I think
> it would address Mr. Orlitsky's issue about what his users need and
> why.

That's more easily handled with sets. No ebuild writing skills are needed
and there's no danger of atoms being accidentally added to the set.


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Neil Bothwick

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