On Sat, 8 Jul 2017 19:24:46 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I don't see why a package manager couldn't offer the same > functionality for a meta package. As was pointed out the set behavior > for unmerging isn't always desirable.
Your missing that sets maybe made by the user, Making a meta ebuild is a bit more complex then dropping package names into a file for a set, no digest, etc. Sets seem to serve a different purpose. With regard to unmerging not being desirable. That is if someone does something stupid like putting a system package into a set. But as I mentioned that the package is part of another set, system or world. It would be pulled back into the system. There are warnings and other stuff that take place when a critical package is removed. A user can remove those now just as they could if they added it to a set. Which really makes that argument moot. Do dumb stuff, you will get undesired results. Like removing a system package, via any means, set, directly, meta dep, etc. > > > > world and system are sets we all have. Not sure about PMS. It is > > something portage has supported for some time. You likely have many > > sets already on your system > > Certainly. You just can't depend on them and so on without having > them in PMS, because portage isn't the only package manager we > "support." Not sure about other package managers, but I would think they have similar function. If not then anything listed under emerge --list-sets, would be portage specific. That would likely break other things. > It just strikes me that we're probably better off picking one way of > doing this and putting lots of support behind it, versus having two > ways of doing this and some features work with one but not the other. > Of the two meta packages seem like they're the most generic. The two ways are not the same, and there is a reason sets exist in the first place. People seem to be over looking that fact. I did not add sets. They are not new. I am simply trying to expand their use. If someone wants to "try" out some packages a set is an ideal way of doing such. If someone wants a subset of what is in a meta ebuild. Again a set is an ideal way to do that. If for no other reason, then if the user wants to remove them. They just emerge -C @my_set. I find sets very useful! Only limitation is the profile aspect. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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