Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Auto-select slots based on system configuration

[Zac Medico]

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Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> It seems to me like there are a number of things that should be able to
> hint that you want some particular slots of particular packages, such that
> --depclean doesn't remove them and emerge world updates them.
>
> For example, it shouldn't remove the version of gentoo-sources that your
> /usr/src/linux symlink points to. It shouldn't remove the version of emacs
> you've got eselected. It shouldn't remove a version of tomcat that you've
> got in your default runlevel. It shouldn't remove the Java VM that
> java-config is set to.
>
> For each of these, I think it should handle this information as if the
> particular slot were in your world file, so long as the system is
> configured that way (that is, it shouldn't actually record it in the world
> file that way, but it should act like it saw it there).
>
> Would this be a generally good concept, if I came up with a suitable
> implementation? (Now that the code is set up to carry out the implications
> of such a setting)
>
> 	-Daniel
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It seems like those could could be implemented as package sets. We
have support for packages sets in trunk (will be released as
portage-2.2) and they have some documentation in docbook format. In
case you'd like to try it, there are some instructions for using
trunk here:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/testing.xml

Zac

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