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 1RhpLA-0003kQ-64 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:22:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 242D621C101; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0486521C0AA for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 530CF8000A for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:20:42 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:20:40 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior Message-ID: <20120102212040.219ad21a@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120102231103.58da25d5@rohan.example.com> References: <4F00D521.1030702@orlitzky.com> <4F00DA99.8050502@orlitzky.com> <4F00DEC5.5090500@gmail.com> <4F00E741.6050002@orlitzky.com> <4F01CED2.5090806@libertytrek.org> <4F01D6A2.9000002@orlitzky.com> <4F01DC67.7070305@orlitzky.com> <20120102231103.58da25d5@rohan.example.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs8 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/ApLkkrBO/SfM6Wt+Vi2GKTW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: dece787a-affd-4a8c-83a9-2842cb7b826f X-Archives-Hash: dac4ba7a3b26b86adac2987a4e8b2cc1 --Sig_/ApLkkrBO/SfM6Wt+Vi2GKTW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 23:11:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Neil's suggestion of sets sounds like what you want here. Unfortunately > it only works smoothly on first emerge (later on you have to dig > through dep graphs to find the full dep list): >=20 As it is only used to support non-portage installs, there isn't that much work involved, usually only looking at the README, adding the relevant packages to a set and emerging the set. Unless the out-of-tree packages dependencies change, there's no real maintenance to do, unless portage goes and upgrades a dep to a newer and incompatible version. --=20 Neil Bothwick If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers? --Sig_/ApLkkrBO/SfM6Wt+Vi2GKTW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8CH6kACgkQum4al0N1GQOJ+wCffKf0kkw7u4fANqgKTGZG3b1C X0kAnRG/A6sL8J9cIVEeJcGC7YqYo1Bo =6qSs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ApLkkrBO/SfM6Wt+Vi2GKTW--