On 4/27/06, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I explore this idea with any further discussion, I'll be sure to
follow the suggestions here about another list and reading past messages
on that list.
Feel free to look at http://dev.gentoo.org/~radek/portki/
Short feature lists:
* designed to
Thank you both for your detailed replies. I've got quite a list of
additional notions now for trying to implement this idea myself, and I'm
very grateful for the thoughtful suggestions. I also have a better
understanding of current portage capabilities, so I appreciate the
additional commentary o
On 4/27/06, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In any case, once you get your list and weed out the stuff you /don't/
> want on it, rather than doing that copy trickery, try this:
Yeah, much smarter than my cp tricks. Although using emerge to
generate the package list will have a problem in that
Richard Fish posted
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted
below, on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:10:27 -0700:
> So maybe this could be satisified by allowing user-defined categories
> of packages beyond system and world? Something like world, system,
> fragile, non-fragile?
Actually, that's called set support,
Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
excerpted below, on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:27:38 -0400:
> I'm sorry, but do your friends call you Duncan? I'll leave it at that.
Who, me?No, safe to say, /not/ me.
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Thanks for your informative reply, Peter. I think I'll try your method
for awhile. I'm sure it's less time consuming than my current method,
if perhaps still not ideal, and although I do realize this idea may be
an unattainable utopia, by Jean-Francois pointing me to glcu, I'm glad
to see that I'
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:30:35 -0400, Kevin wrote:
> Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
>> On 4/26/06, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> What I really want is to make the process of maintaining Gentoo boxes
>>> over the long term easier (IOW: less time-consuming) than is now true,
>>> by adding
