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From: coalml@××××.io
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Cc: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 06:05:19
Message-Id: Ml8txKg--3-2@tuta.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs by Dale
1 I thank the four of you for the insight I learn more in 5 mins then I did in an afternoon,I have two last question tho
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4 > As a example, if you want a
5 > full KDE install, you just emerge the kde meta package and it gets
6 > recorded in the world file.  The emerge command will take care of all
7 > the other packages that depend on the meta package.  That is a LOT of
8 > packages too
9 >
10 Theoretically I can make my own meta package and place in the localrepo I have and set it to pull packages from the official repos
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12 Firstly is there any dependency hell that I can fall into when placing lots of different packages with (unexpectedly) conflicting deps on my own meta package?Has anyone (reading this) that has done it before and worked out a niche way to avoid falling into that trap?
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14 Secondly(I know I will surely find this one in the wiki but)can I set a priority to pull from the local repo first if package exists and then have the official repo as a backup?
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16 Lastly thank you for your previous replies forgot to add it on my last mail and I didnt want to bloat the mailing list like im editing a forum post with asterisks :D 
17 ..
18 .Thank you (ah I'm learning)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs Miles Malone <m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>