On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 15:54:58 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > If you want to install the same group of packages on multiple >> > machines, create a set and copy it to /etc/portage/sets. I have a >> > base set that I install on everything, containing all the things I >> > always fond useful, and a desktop set for, well, you can probably >> > guess. >> >> Just be careful about uninstalling sets. For whatever reason portage >> doesn't manage dependencies when you do this. > > Do you mean that depclean doesn't remove them? >
The opposite. If you uninstall a set, portage will remove everything in the set even if something else that is installed still needs it. Removing a package with --depclean doesn't have this problem. There is no reason this couldn't be fixed - it is just something to watch out for. Another option to consider is creating your own overlay with some meta-packages in it. Then when you do a new install the first thing you do is pull in that overlay and you get those meta-packages along with whatever else you want to override. Come to think of it, I might just go do that... -- Rich
