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