I have been playing with some package sets and I like the concept of
sets quite a lot. However there is one big drawback. You cannot use a
package set in a profile. Or at least I do not think you can. I have
looked into it a bit and does not seem like it is possible.
I know I can create a meta ebu
Is that your blog?
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.
wrote:
> I have been playing with some package sets and I like the concept of
> sets quite a lot. However there is one big drawback. You cannot use a
> package set in a profile. Or at least I do not think you can. I have
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:36:16 -0400
Lucas Ramage wrote:
> Is that your blog?
No it is not my blog. I do not have a blog. I have no idea about the
blog owner/author. Google brought me there via some search. Not sure it
was even regarding sets as I had no idea about them till I came across
that blog
On 07/07/2017 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> I have been playing with some package sets and I like the concept of
> sets quite a lot. However there is one big drawback. You cannot use a
> package set in a profile. Or at least I do not think you can. I have
> looked into it a bit and does
On 7/7/2017 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> I think sets have benefits over meta packages. This was the most
> comprehensive document on sets, benefits, uses, etc. Other than the
> general docs on the wiki.
> https://makuro.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/intro-to-portage-sets/
>
> I would re
On 7/7/2017 12:57 PM, Brian Evans wrote:
> On 7/7/2017 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>
>> I think sets have benefits over meta packages. This was the most
>> comprehensive document on sets, benefits, uses, etc. Other than the
>> general docs on the wiki.
>> https://makuro.wordpress.com/2
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
NP-Hardass wrote:
>
> There is actually a huge functional difference between the two that
> you are missing here. A meta package defines its dependencies in full
> dependency syntax. This means you can specify versions, USE flag
> dependencies, make packages de
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:57:17 -0400
Brian Evans wrote:
> On 7/7/2017 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>
> > I think sets have benefits over meta packages. This was the most
> > comprehensive document on sets, benefits, uses, etc. Other than the
> > general docs on the wiki.
> > https://maku
On 07/07/2017 01:05 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
> NP-Hardass wrote:
>>
>> There is actually a huge functional difference between the two that
>> you are missing here. A meta package defines its dependencies in full
>> dependency syntax. This means you ca
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 13:31:52 -0400
NP-Hardass wrote:
> On 07/07/2017 01:05 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
> > NP-Hardass wrote:
> >>
> Yeah, but I'm not wild about the prospect of handling some packages
> via one method, and others via another. Could yo
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
NP-Hardass wrote:
> There is actually a huge functional difference between the two that you
> are missing here. A meta package defines its dependencies in full
> dependency syntax. This means you can specify versions, USE flag
> dependencies, make packages depe
On 07/07/2017 04:38 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
> NP-Hardass wrote:
>
>> There is actually a huge functional difference between the two that you
>> are missing here. A meta package defines its dependencies in full
>> dependency syntax. This means you can speci
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 21:38:31 +0100
James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
> NP-Hardass wrote:
> > There is actually a huge functional difference between the two that
> > you are missing here. A meta package defines its dependencies in
> > full dependency syntax. This means yo
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 21:43:14 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 21:38:31 +0100
> James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400
> > NP-Hardass wrote:
> > > There is actually a huge functional difference between the two
> > > that you are missing here. A meta packa
On 07/08/2017 02:48 AM, NP-Hardass wrote:
> On 07/07/2017 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
>> I have been playing with some package sets and I like the concept of
>> sets quite a lot. However there is one big drawback. You cannot use a
>> package set in a profile. Or at least I do not think
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