[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: User created package lists

[MIkey]

tvali wrote:

> So, if portage would be looked as lists and operations with lists
> (calculating dependencies of package would be operation with list of
> that package and list of all - portage tree -, then); building tools
> [shell commands] for creating those lists and tools for operations
> with those lists and leaving "emerge" tool just a handy interface to
> command them would be imho great.

What about something along these lines...

Add the capability for emerge to take a category as an argument, emerge
www-apps for example, and emerge all packages within that category. 
Optionally make it so this will only work on categories within
PORTDIR_OVERLAY, or create a new type of overlay, LIST_OVERLAY.

Then the user can create overlays with their own category names and symlink
in the package directories they want from the real portage tree.

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