On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > >> > >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Marco wrote: > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> > just install the qt4 set. Meta packages are being phased out. > >> > >> Not sure if I understand what you mean. I thought sets only exist for > >> world and system? > >> > >> > Or unmask the meta package. /etc/portage/package.unmask. > >> > >> That's what I want to avoid since apparently this meta package gets > >> removed in the future. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Marco > > > > so what? it really does not matter if it is there or not. And no - with > > 2.2* portage there are many more sets than just world and system. You can > > even easily create your own. > > Well, I try to avoid installing such packages to not have migration > issues later.
you won't. The meta package is just a wrapper around splits. If it goes away - so what? the splits still remain and are still updated. Only depclean might screw you - in that case just install them via set. > > And, yes, portage 2.2* apparently supports many more sets, but portage > 2.2* is still masked and I don't know if there is a potental risk to > use it already. > and as long as portage 2.2 is masked, metas will stay around ;)
