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Lol i just installed that earlier, didnt know gentoo is THAT understaffed,looking at the history i know of i still dont understand if the wiki dying was a good or a bad thing for the community in one hand hardcore fans stayed and rewrote(of what i can see) some epic documentation in comparison to other distors,on the other hand. . . lonelyness?Eh to its their own i guess :D |
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Cheers, |
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4 Oct 2021, 07:51 by m.malone@××××××××××××××××××.net: |
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> There's one thing that springs instantly to mind that uses a complex |
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> meta package that isnt a desktop environment is texlive. And jesus do |
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> the texlive team (all... two of them?) work hard. Special shout out. |
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> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 16:37, Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 08:05, <coalml@××××.io> wrote: |
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>> > 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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>> Probably depends on what you intend this 'meta' package to do. |
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>> Something like the KDE meta package is rarely useful outside of DE's |
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>> in my estimate, and exist purely to create a KDE 'package' that users |
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>> can easily install without much consideration. |
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>> If you want to create your own groups of packages that you want to |
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>> install with a single command, I would look into sets. @system and |
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>> @world are sets that everyone uses, but it's easy to create your own |
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>> for whatever purpose. |
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>> Portage is usually pretty good at helping you figure out any |
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>> dependency conflicts, so I wouldn't worry about it. Might be worth |
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>> looking deeper into the way portage prints dependency errors if you |
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>> encounter problems though. As evidenced by many a thread on this list, |
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>> it can sometimes be very hard to understand, simply because there can |
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>> be a lot of it when there are conflicts, and it's easy to get |
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>> side-tracked by information that isn't directly related to your |
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>> problem. |
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>> > 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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>> You configure your repos in /etc/portage/repos.conf. For each repo you |
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>> have the option of setting a priority. I think "official third-party" |
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>> repos installed through layman gets a priority = 50, and if I'm not |
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>> mistaken, the official repo have a default of 100. If you want your |
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>> own repo to be the first choice, give your repo a higher priority. |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Arve |
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