Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage and sets

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 05:33:40 James wrote:
>   
>> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> OK, color me "dense", but, if we are assuming  there should be
>> a smooth (easy) transition from kde-meta to kde "sets" I'm
>> missing something. The posted lists (sets) do not look anything
>> like the way kde-meta is organized.
>>     
>
> The kde-testing overlay ships with at least 50 pre-defined sets, and in there 
> you will find a set that maps to every -meta ebuild that we have been using 
> for so long.
>
> As to why there isn't such a thing with portage, I don't know. You would have 
> to ask the kde ebuild maintainers. But if you would like to have this 
> collection of sets and haven't added the overlay, I'd happily send you a 
> tarball of all the kde sets.
>
>
>   


If it's not huge or anything, I'll take a look at it.  Dial-up
remember?  Life sucks out here in the sticks.  It's quiet out here tho.

Oh, off list of course.

Dale

:-)  :-)