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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:54:29
Message-Id: 4EDEFF50.2020706@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 12/06/2011 09:21 PM, Duncan wrote:
2 > Zac Medico posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:45:26 -0800 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >> We can easily roll packages.default into the set support that's in
5 >> stable portage (no need for full-blown sets.conf support). Currently, in
6 >> stable portage, we have:
7 >>
8 >> @world = @selected + @system
9 >>
10 >> How about if we add an optional @default set that's generated from
11 >> pacakges.default in the user's profile? The @default set would be pulled
12 >> in by @selected when @default is listed in /var/lib/portage/world_sets
13 >> (in stable portage, @selected currently only pulls in atoms from
14 >> /var/lib/portage/world).
15 >
16 > If @selected only pulls in /var/lib/portage/world , what pulls in
17 > /var/lib/portage/world_sets ? You mention it, but don't say what pulls
18 > it in, if as you say @selected doesn't.
19
20 Currently, in portage-2.2.x, @selected pulls in both
21 /var/lib/portage/world and /var/lib/portage/world_sets. If we want, we
22 can easily do it that way in stable too.
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Zac

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[gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/ncurses: punted from system in profiles Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>