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From: Brian Evans <grknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:01:38
Message-Id: 3bf59fad-840f-8959-bf9b-b6742c21bd5f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds by Brian Evans
1 On 7/7/2017 12:57 PM, Brian Evans wrote:
2 > On 7/7/2017 12:32 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
3 >
4 >> I think sets have benefits over meta packages. This was the most
5 >> comprehensive document on sets, benefits, uses, etc. Other than the
6 >> general docs on the wiki.
7 >> https://makuro.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/intro-to-portage-sets/
8 >>
9 >> I would really like to be able to use package sets in profiles. I
10 >> think of use and benefit to others as well.
11 >>
12 >
13 > Beware of sets.. if you put toolchain packages in a set and later do
14 > 'emerge --unmerge @custom-set' , emerge will happily destroy your toolchain.
15 >
16 > Brian
17 >
18
19 or worse dev-lang/python....
20
21 Brian

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