Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:03:10 -0600, Dale wrote: > > >> Lets say I have a set named dk-kde, with the prefix Allen suggested, and >> I put kde-meta in that file. Would that emerge all the KDE or just that >> one package? I emerged kde-meta to install KDE so that is all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:03:10 -0600, Dale wrote: > Lets say I have a set named dk-kde, with the prefix Allen suggested, and > I put kde-meta in that file. Would that emerge all the KDE or just that > one package? I emerged kde-meta to install KDE so that is all there is > in my world file right n

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 23 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of >> portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki >> and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: > Hi again, > > One more note. I recommend you use a prefix for your own sets, to > avoid conflicts with official or overlay sets. ie. I call my kde-3.5 > set: ajb-kde-3.5 > > While portage almost certainly has a system for handling conflicting > sets (at a guess, probably user > ove

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 23 February 2009 11:10:47 Dale wrote: > Hi > > I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of > portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki > and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for > sets. I would like to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 23 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: > Hi > > I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of > portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki > and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for > sets. I would like to have a couple th

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
Hi again, One more note. I recommend you use a prefix for your own sets, to avoid conflicts with official or overlay sets. ie. I call my kde-3.5 set: ajb-kde-3.5 While portage almost certainly has a system for handling conflicting sets (at a guess, probably user > overlay > official tree, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread AllenJB
Hi, Portage documentation: http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html Built-in sets specification file: /usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf For KDE sets, check the sets directory in the kde-testing overlay: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=tree User sets are

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:10:47 -0600, Dale wrote: > could someone send me a copy of a sets file > for something like KDE or something. Just something I can use for a > template if you would. A sets file is just a list of packages, in the same format as /var/lib/portage/world. A quick and dirty wa

[gentoo-user] Portage and sets

2009-02-23 Thread Dale
Hi I'm wanting to experiment a little with the new sets feature of portage. I have searched around the forums, even looked at gentoo wiki and read a few man pages. I can not find a good link to a how to for sets. I would like to have a couple things if someone has them. 1) a link to a good how