Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

[Tanstaafl]

On 2012-01-02 3:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:29:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> That works for the case where the software is managed by portage,
>> which is likely 99.9999% of what's on Gentoo systems worldwide. It
>> doesn't work however for the odd case where I write some little
>> program which requires a library (ta-lib in my portage file) and I
>> don't write an ebuild to build it. I've never bothered to learn to do
>> my own ebuilds but at some level it would be a good idea, and I think
>> it would address Mr. Orlitsky's issue about what his users need and
>> why.
>
> That's more easily handled with sets. No ebuild writing skills are needed
> and there's no danger of atoms being accidentally added to the set.

This sounds very interesting...

Neil, is the use of sets fully documented somewhere? I don't recall 
reading about them in the Handbook, but its been a while since I read it 
(and don't remember if I ever did cover to cover)...

Thanks!