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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades.
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:12:49
Message-Id: 4E975417.4040608@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Build dependencies and upgrades. by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
2 > Mike Frysinger posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:39:52 -0400 as excerpted:
3 >
4 >> i thought there was talk of an automatic @security set at some point,
5 >> but not sure if that got anywhere.
6
7 Marius (genone) added @security support along with the other sets in
8 portage-2.2, and it's still supported.
9
10 > Sets (other than @system and @world) aren't available in stable portage
11 > yet. Are they even in ~arch?
12
13 We migrate features to ~arch (which becomes stable) as soon as they're
14 in a state that we're happy enough to support long-term. Bug 144480 [1]
15 tracks issues related to sets.
16
17 > I've been running the masked 2.2 in
18 > ordered to have sets for so long it's beginning to feel like openrc all
19 > over again, except now it's not even in ~arch, AFAIK. <sigh>
20
21 FWIW, we've already got plans to bring support for /etc/portage/sets to
22 ~arch [2].
23
24 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144480
25 [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384061
26 --
27 Thanks,
28 Zac