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

[MIkey]

Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote:

>> Add the capability for emerge to take a category as an argument,
>
> # (cd ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} && emerge -pv <category>/*)
>
>> Then the user can create overlays with their own category names and
>> symlink in the package directories they want from the real portage
>> tree.
>
> This won't work, I think, since depend atoms include the category name
> so if one package in the new category depends on another one, it will
> use the standard category rather than the symlinked one in the new
> category.

On second thought it was a stupid idea.  It would be easier to just create
meta packages in an overlay and emerge those.

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