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 1LbrCF-00040B-FQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:55:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B143BE0477; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.248]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863FEE0477 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id f25so2374446rvb.46 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:55:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9CrW4sRUvvrJPaXsykRp66KqZH60bKOgkx6GD/Mvhx0=; b=mKHbGi85x7NIHjUaz6olco09XfbPnVHUL/gQZTHICWPXcBWgv4rD+m1vrba24wAaZ7 rND09kIWx7rEkoOKdeksoz2eBGKZa/FW2tc9yB2e7EWtfqqthnaVCnvfPnH0q9nVfRSH xf2+ZiH4s4U/K08e8DVxh42CkfY8RMjK6KFn4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tTqqNbclTN7a1m3t8x0quv6AxGNZqSBDGIllB+whuA8N6F3yNJZP+3T7+Uno3P8Z2i usUQs06sNKCgrPzQ55ZUPfhQPRX1qWs9/PzC2nwYqxsHJYhrgDkBJG7h9rcMitCxsNPy J5DdXzKjsGSqs2p5yoASVZJXjJDnBqC2FSrx0= Received: by 10.141.180.5 with SMTP id h5mr2422763rvp.223.1235458513166; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:55:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.105.96? (dialup-4.230.105.96.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.96]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c20sm7210198rvf.1.2009.02.23.22.55.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:55:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49A399CB.3000106@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:55:07 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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] Re: Portage and sets References: <49A26817.2030609@gmail.com> <20090223132610.1e02c7e0@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200902240806.33366.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200902240806.33366.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7c76e80c-05a8-4cc7-aa21-c40131b5d68d X-Archives-Hash: 3ed77ffde4d691d63b74e35dc62dd3be Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 05:33:40 James wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick 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 :-) :-)