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On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:35:21 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: |
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> On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:45:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > If you consider spending a couple of days farting around |
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> > > with |
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> > > fortran to be "much easier"... :P |
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> > I use sets for this. I want KDE but not all of it, so I have a |
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> > set |
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> > with just the -meta packages I want: |
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> I do similar, except I'm even more of a control freak than you, so |
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> my kde4 set contains onl;y a couple of meta-packages, the rest it |
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> individual packages. |
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> % wc -l /etc/portage/sets/kde4 |
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> 83 /etc/portage/sets/kde4 |
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> Sad, I know :( |
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Wow, how do you maintain that lot and keep it all straight? |
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KDE devs love adding and removing and renaming stuff between minor |
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versions, mostly just for the hell of it. You could end up with |
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KDE-4.2 packages in there if you don't keep an eye on it :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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