From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbX22-0002p2-3Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F172E03A1; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [212.13.194.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B50E03A1 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87247940AC for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.apserver.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server2.alteredperspective.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id f07FxQE3tPRe for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.0.50] (home.twigathy.com [93.96.164.20]) by mail.apserver.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5575D94081 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:14 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <49A26AFC.4090902@allenjb.me.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:23:08 +0000 From: AllenJB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090108 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets References: <49A26817.2030609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49A26817.2030609@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 59cfd259-f018-4e51-b74a-9cda8e427d9c X-Archives-Hash: d2351c33b2282df87e1c7ae20e196099 Hi again, One more note. I recommend you use a prefix for your own sets, to avoid conflicts with official or overlay sets. ie. I call my kde-3.5 set: ajb-kde-3.5 While portage almost certainly has a system for handling conflicting sets (at a guess, probably user > overlay > official tree, the same way everything else goes), this removes any ambiguity. AllenJB Dale wrote: > Hi > > I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of > portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki > and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for > sets. I would like to have a couple things if someone has them. 1) a > link to a good how to. 2) could someone send me a copy of a sets file > for something like KDE or something. Just something I can use for a > template if you would. > > Thanks much. Oh, yea, I may be about to break something. I got my > backups up to date tho. o_O > > Dale > > :-) :-) >