Lol i just installed that earlier, didnt know gentoo is THAT understaffed,looking at the history i know of i still dont understand if the wiki dying was a good or a bad thing for the community in one hand hardcore fans stayed and rewrote(of what i can see) some epic documentation in comparison to other distors,on the other hand. . . lonelyness?Eh to its their own i guess :DÂ Cheers, good night
4 Oct 2021, 07:51 by m.mal...@homicidalteddybear.net: > There's one thing that springs instantly to mind that uses a complex > meta package that isnt a desktop environment is texlive. And jesus do > the texlive team (all... two of them?) work hard. Special shout out. > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 16:37, Arve Barsnes <arve.bars...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 08:05, <coa...@tuta.io> wrote: >> > Firstly is there any dependency hell that I can fall into when placing >> > lots of different packages with (unexpectedly) conflicting deps on my own >> > meta package?Has anyone (reading this) that has done it before and worked >> > out a niche way to avoid falling into that trap? >> >> Probably depends on what you intend this 'meta' package to do. >> Something like the KDE meta package is rarely useful outside of DE's >> in my estimate, and exist purely to create a KDE 'package' that users >> can easily install without much consideration. >> >> If you want to create your own groups of packages that you want to >> install with a single command, I would look into sets. @system and >> @world are sets that everyone uses, but it's easy to create your own >> for whatever purpose. >> >> Portage is usually pretty good at helping you figure out any >> dependency conflicts, so I wouldn't worry about it. Might be worth >> looking deeper into the way portage prints dependency errors if you >> encounter problems though. As evidenced by many a thread on this list, >> it can sometimes be very hard to understand, simply because there can >> be a lot of it when there are conflicts, and it's easy to get >> side-tracked by information that isn't directly related to your >> problem. >> >> > Secondly(I know I will surely find this one in the wiki but)can I set a >> > priority to pull from the local repo first if package exists and then have >> > the official repo as a backup? >> >> You configure your repos in /etc/portage/repos.conf. For each repo you >> have the option of setting a priority. I think "official third-party" >> repos installed through layman gets a priority = 50, and if I'm not >> mistaken, the official repo have a default of 100. If you want your >> own repo to be the first choice, give your repo a higher priority. >> >> Cheers, >> Arve >>
