Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:43:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > % cat /etc/portage/sets.conf >> > [kernels] >> > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet >> > world-candidate = False >> > files = /usr/src >> > >> > then emerge -n @kernels >> >> This one kind of sails right over my head... not seeing what is >> supposed to happen. > > It's in the part of my post you didn't quote, it stops older kernels > being depcleaned. Basically it is saying that any package with files > in /usr/src is a member of the kernels set. As emerge -n @kernels adds > that to world_sets, nothing with files in /usr/src will even get > depcleaned. It means I can keep as many or as few kernels as I want > without having to fudge it in world.
Got it thanks again... can't really apologize for the densness factor but I guess my punishment is ... I live with it...
