On 02/07/12 15:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:46:04 -0600 > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alan McKinnon >> <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Anyone know a link to documentation on what the syntax is in >>> portage's set files? I once had a skimpy doc (since lost) that >>> described operators like + - / that let you add, remove and replace >>> named atoms in a set file. >> >> Portage documentation, Part I Chapter 2 "Package Set Configuration" >> should have more than you ever wanted to know about sets. :) Emerge >> portage with USE="doc" if you don't already have it in >> /usr/share/doc/portage*/html/. > > Ah, that explains it. I have USE=-doc set globally and it never occurred > to me to enable it for portage :-) I have only a few packages where > USE=doc is enabled. I'd always sorta assumed the real docs were on a > wiki somewhere :-) >
I tried to look for these a few days ago and did the same thing. Someone should really put up a webpage titled "Portage package sets documentation" that says "try checking /usr/share/doc/portage".
