On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:35:21 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:45:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > If you consider spending a couple of days farting around > > > with > > > fortran to be "much easier"... :P > > > > I use sets for this. I want KDE but not all of it, so I have a > > set > > > with just the -meta packages I want: > I do similar, except I'm even more of a control freak than you, so > my kde4 set contains onl;y a couple of meta-packages, the rest it > individual packages. > > % wc -l /etc/portage/sets/kde4 > 83 /etc/portage/sets/kde4 > > Sad, I know :(
Wow, how do you maintain that lot and keep it all straight? KDE devs love adding and removing and renaming stuff between minor versions, mostly just for the hell of it. You could end up with KDE-4.2 packages in there if you don't keep an eye on it :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
