Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:03:10 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>   
>> Lets say I have a set named dk-kde, with the prefix Allen suggested, and
>> I put kde-meta in that file.  Would that emerge all the KDE or just that
>> one package?  I emerged kde-meta to install KDE so that is all there is
>> in my world file right now.  I notice you have several kde packages in
>> your list.
>>     
>
> Sets are a replacement for meta-packages, so your set would contain the
> packages you need. If it did contain kde-meta, then it would install all
> of KDE, because that is a dependency of kde-meta.
>
>
>   


I tested this and noticed this.  If KDE is already installed, it only
emerges what is in the file.  Of course it would emerge everything if it
was a new install.  This is pretty cool tho.  I see a lot of
possibilities here.

I guess now I'm going to have to learn some of those other commands so
that I can get a list of dependencies and such but remove the stuff that
portage doesn't want in the file.

Dale

:-)  :-)