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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:52:48
Message-Id: 4F0315E3.7040008@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior by Alan McKinnon
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4 On 03.01.2012 15:47, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:05:56 +0100 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
6 > <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de> wrote:
7 >
8 >>>> Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address
9 >>>> really knowing what your system is running and why. Get to
10 >>>> the root of that and the --update thing becomes the non-issue
11 >>>> that many of us think it is.
12 >>>>
13 >>>
14 >>> This would be a suggestion to travel back in time and document
15 >>> something that I have no way of knowing now.
16 >>>
17 >> You could create your own overlay with "meta"-ebuilds, e. g.
18 >> system-maintenance, customer1, customer2. Inside the ebuilds you
19 >> define depends on the packages the customer wants. Doing so you
20 >> could wipe everything except the "meta"-ebuilds from world. When
21 >> a customer quits you can unmerge his or her "meta"-ebuild and
22 >> depclean. If you add everything needed to the respective
23 >> "meta"-ebuild, you'll always be on the safe side.
24 >
25 >
26 > Sets do exactly the same thing simply without all the added
27 > verbiage of an ebuild.
28 >
29 > The *only* thing required to bring about the solution you describe
30 > is the information in the *DEPEND of the meta-ebuild, and that is
31 > all that is in a set.
32 >
33
34 Then I should try to find some information on sets (custom defined
35 ones). Thank you for the hint!
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