james wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > >> Basically, sets start with @ and you would just emerge like a meta, >> emerge @kde-4.2 (or whatever). You can do "emerge --list-sets" to see >> which are available to you. Rather than being meta listed in >> /var/lib/portage/world the sets will be listed in >> /var/lib/portage/world_sets >> > > > > Very cool. > > > > > I'll give it a shot. > > > James > >
Sorry to butt in here. I !think! I get what sets does, you add a group of packages to a file and then when you do the @sets thing, it emerges/upgrades that group of packages. I get that part. I guess from what I am reading that we the user OR the tree devs can create a sets file. So I could create a set called network and put things like Kppp, ppp, wireshark and all the networky things in there for my use alone. I assume that the tree devs can also create a sets file with say all the KDE packages or maybe all the system packages in it for everybody to use. Would that be correct? I'm going to jump off a cliff here and ask this. How would I emerge kde-meta-4.2 and all its friends without using layman or anything, just a plain emerge @kde-meta and go to bed for a while? This would be using the sets feature too. I am using portage-2.2_rc23 so I should be ready to go with the new sets feature. Oh, is there a really good howto somewhere? Real simple non-geek speak. Cool examples would be really nice. I looked around gentoo.org but nothing really spells it out. I did find a HUGE thread about it but still not registering for me. I need a light bulb moment. O_O Dale :-) :-)
