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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Syntax for set files
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:29
Message-Id: 20120207203623.75f83a1e@khamul.example.com
1 Anyone know a link to documentation on what the syntax is in portage's
2 set files? I once had a skimpy doc (since lost) that described
3 operators like + - / that let you add, remove and replace named atoms
4 in a set file.
5
6 I use the enlightenment-niifaq overlay which ships with some awesome
7 predfined sets. But source code for some of those ebuilds are broken. I
8 really don't feel like maintaining my own sets for this. Much easier to
9 just make a small set with a line like so:
10
11 @enlightenment-niifaq - <broken_ebuild1> - <broken_ebuild2>
12
13 Can this even be done in portage?
14
15 doc/portage-2.2.0_alpha85/RELEASE-NOTES.bz2 implies it probably isn't
16 supported:
17
18 * Package set support: There are several important notes regarding
19 package sets:
20 - they may currently only include simple and versioned atoms or other
21 sets, use conditionals or any-of constructs aren't possible yet
22
23 Can other package managers (eg paludis) do this?
24 --
25 Alan McKinnnon
26 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for set files Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>