There's one thing that springs instantly to mind that uses a complex meta package that isnt a desktop environment is texlive. And jesus do the texlive team (all... two of them?) work hard. Special shout out.
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 16:37, Arve Barsnes <arve.bars...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 08:05, <coa...@tuta.io> wrote: > > Firstly is there any dependency hell that I can fall into when placing lots > > of different packages with (unexpectedly) conflicting deps on my own meta > > package?Has anyone (reading this) that has done it before and worked out a > > niche way to avoid falling into that trap? > > Probably depends on what you intend this 'meta' package to do. > Something like the KDE meta package is rarely useful outside of DE's > in my estimate, and exist purely to create a KDE 'package' that users > can easily install without much consideration. > > If you want to create your own groups of packages that you want to > install with a single command, I would look into sets. @system and > @world are sets that everyone uses, but it's easy to create your own > for whatever purpose. > > Portage is usually pretty good at helping you figure out any > dependency conflicts, so I wouldn't worry about it. Might be worth > looking deeper into the way portage prints dependency errors if you > encounter problems though. As evidenced by many a thread on this list, > it can sometimes be very hard to understand, simply because there can > be a lot of it when there are conflicts, and it's easy to get > side-tracked by information that isn't directly related to your > problem. > > > Secondly(I know I will surely find this one in the wiki but)can I set a > > priority to pull from the local repo first if package exists and then have > > the official repo as a backup? > > You configure your repos in /etc/portage/repos.conf. For each repo you > have the option of setting a priority. I think "official third-party" > repos installed through layman gets a priority = 50, and if I'm not > mistaken, the official repo have a default of 100. If you want your > own repo to be the first choice, give your repo a higher priority. > > Cheers, > Arve >
