On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone know a link to documentation on what the syntax is in portage's > set files? I once had a skimpy doc (since lost) that described > operators like + - / that let you add, remove and replace named atoms > in a set file.
Portage documentation, Part I Chapter 2 "Package Set Configuration" should have more than you ever wanted to know about sets. :) Emerge portage with USE="doc" if you don't already have it in /usr/share/doc/portage*/html/. > I use the enlightenment-niifaq overlay which ships with some awesome > predfined sets. But source code for some of those ebuilds are broken. I > really don't feel like maintaining my own sets for this. Much easier to > just make a small set with a line like so: > > @enlightenment-niifaq - <broken_ebuild1> - <broken_ebuild2> > > Can this even be done in portage? I think you can use regex in the sets declaration. I haven't really used them much myself.
