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Hi, Neil. |
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 20:48:38 +0100, among other, you wrote: |
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> > A profile is only a starting point, a default set of packages and |
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> > USE |
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> flags for common scenarios. It is up to the user/admin to decide which |
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> packages they want to install on each system, so a one size fits all |
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> approach would not be useful. |
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> If you want to install the same group of packages on multiple |
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> machines, create a set and copy it to /etc/portage/sets. I have a |
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> base set that I install on everything, containing all the things I |
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> always fond useful, and a desktop set for, well, you can probably |
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> guess. |
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The problem i see is that admin. is not free to change the packages |
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set, that is dictated by a profile. -- Like i have pointed out, once i |
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tried to remove SSH (for the example, so that here can be another |
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package, and it was the first (base?) profile), on next system update, |
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it returned and got compiled installed. |
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Another question is how do i change dependencies of one package |
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that i suppose will live happily w/o whole the set of the packages it |
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supposes it needs. -- Like, i want to play only media files, but not |
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to convert them, so, the ffmpeg package, for example, that i do not need |
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at all, gets compiled and installed -- i would trim from dependencies |
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lists of the other packages. |
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Thank you for your time, |
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Sthu. |
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