On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 21:38:31 +0100 James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 12:48:04 -0400 > NP-Hardass <np-hard...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > There is actually a huge functional difference between the two that > > you are missing here. A meta package defines its dependencies in > > full dependency syntax. This means you can specify versions, USE > > flag dependencies, make packages dependent on USE flags, etc. A > > package set is just a list of packages (potentially constrained by > > version. TTBOMK, there is no inclusion of any USE flag > > functionality in sets. Additionally, let's say you have a more > > complicated dependency like || ( A B ), I don't think there is a > > way to describe that in a package set at all. > > Actually you can specify basic USE dependencies in sets. You can also > specify SLOTs. For example, this is valid. > > media-libs/tiff:3[abi_x86_32,jpeg,zlib,-cxx]
And this is one of many reasons "sets in profiles" isn't going to work: we don't really know what most of this stuff means... -- Ciaran McCreesh
