On 2012-01-02 3:48 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:29:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
That works for the case where the software is managed by portage,
which is likely 99.9999% of what's on Gentoo systems worldwide. It
doesn't work however for the odd case where I write some little
program which requires a library (ta-lib in my portage file) and I
don't write an ebuild to build it. I've never bothered to learn to do
my own ebuilds but at some level it would be a good idea, and I think
it would address Mr. Orlitsky's issue about what his users need and
why.
That's more easily handled with sets. No ebuild writing skills are needed
and there's no danger of atoms being accidentally added to the set.
This sounds very interesting...
Neil, is the use of sets fully documented somewhere? I don't recall
reading about them in the Handbook, but its been a while since I read it
(and don't remember if I ever did cover to cover)...
Thanks!
