On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:54:44 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I'm highly doubtful that there's any real need for different kinds > > of repository-provided sets. We especially don't want sets to be > > code... > > Simple things like getting a list of packages which own a particular > file (for rebuilds) or grepping a variable are useful to users.
That's something done by sets as provided by the package mangler, not something done by repository-specified sets. > For example, the x11 overlay provides a set to rebuild the xorg server > modules after an update. That's just a list of package specs. The user then says "only the ones of these that I have installed" by the way the set is used. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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