On Jan 3, 2012 7:08 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:49:45 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > Neil, is the use of sets fully documented somewhere? I don't recall > > reading about them in the Handbook, but its been a while since I read > > it (and don't remember if I ever did cover to cover)... > > I can't recall where I found the documentation, but you can create a set > in /etc/portage/sets/ with one atom per line. Then emerge @setname to > install the packages. > > I find them really useful. For example I have a @base set listing all the > packages I want on a new install (tmux, gentoolkit, portage-utils etc) so > I can copy it to a new install and emerge @base to make sure I have all > the tools I normally use. >
Now *that's* useful. Thanks for the idea! Rgds,
