[gentoo-user] x11-bas/xorg-x11 removal

[ralfconn]

Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts,
I'd like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my
systems to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal.

Is anybody aware of some ready to use tool for the purpose, without
re-inventing the wheel?

thanks,

raffaele

[David Haller]

Hello,

Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd
like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems
to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal.
Is anybody aware of some ready to use tool for the purpose, without
re-inventing the wheel?

for c in x11-base/ x11-apps/; do
eix '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMESLOT>' "$c"
done

HTH,
-dnh

[ralfconn]

Post by David Haller

Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd
like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems
to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal.
Is anybody aware of some ready to use tool for the purpose, without
re-inventing the wheel?

for c in x11-base/ x11-apps/; do
eix '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMESLOT>' "$c"
done

Wonderfully simple, thank you

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by ralfconn

Post by David Haller

Post by ralfconn
Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and
x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd like to build a list of the x11 utilities
currently installed on my systems to add them to world in
preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal.
Is anybody aware of some ready to use tool for the purpose, without
re-inventing the wheel?

for c in x11-base/ x11-apps/; do
eix '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMESLOT>' "$c"
done

Wonderfully simple, thank you

qlist -IC | grep -e x11-base -e x11-apps -e x11-fonts >/etc/portage/sets/x11
emerge -n @x11

Saves filling @world with dozens of x11 entries.

[Walter Dnes]

Post by Neil Bothwick
qlist -IC | grep -e x11-base -e x11-apps -e x11-fonts >/etc/portage/sets/x11

1) Has /var/lib/portage/set_name been deprecated?

2) Will items in /etc/portage/sets/<whatever> be automatically updated
each time you update world?

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by Walter Dnes

Post by Neil Bothwick
qlist -IC | grep -e x11-base -e x11-apps -e x11-fonts >/etc/portage/sets/x11

1) Has /var/lib/portage/set_name been deprecated?

No. The new default is now /var/lib/portage. Check your
/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf if you're in doubt about where
your main repo is.

Post by Walter Dnes
2) Will items in /etc/portage/sets/<whatever> be automatically updated
each time you update world?

What kind of updates would that be? You never update world, it is a
registry of what packages you have installed, generally, not a
specific version. A set would be the same.

Regards,
Arve

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by Arve Barsnes

Post by Walter Dnes

Post by Neil Bothwick
qlist -IC | grep -e x11-base -e x11-apps -e x11-fonts

1) Has /var/lib/portage/set_name been deprecated?

No. The new default is now /var/lib/portage. Check your
/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf if you're in doubt about where
your main repo is.

When did that happen? The portage man page still shows /etc/portage/sets/
as the location for user-defined sets.

Post by Arve Barsnes

Post by Walter Dnes
2) Will items in /etc/portage/sets/<whatever> be automatically
updated each time you update world?

Provided the set is in world_sets, all packages in it will be treated as
if they were in @world for updates.

[Peter Humphrey]

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Arve Barsnes

Post by Walter Dnes

Post by Neil Bothwick
qlist -IC | grep -e x11-base -e x11-apps -e x11-fonts

1) Has /var/lib/portage/set_name been deprecated?

No. The new default is now /var/lib/portage. Check your
/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf if you're in doubt about where
your main repo is.

When did that happen? The portage man page still shows /etc/portage/sets/
as the location for user-defined sets.

There seems to be some confusion here. /var/lib/portage is where portage
stores things; /etc/portage is where you store portage things.

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Arve Barsnes

Post by Walter Dnes
2) Will items in /etc/portage/sets/<whatever> be automatically
updated each time you update world?

Provided the set is in world_sets, all packages in it will be treated as

In my case, nearly all the packages I want installed are specified in 6 sets in
/etc/portage/sets/<set-name>. When I emerge one of those sets, portage adds it
to /var/lib/portage/world_sets, just as any package I emerge specifically goes
into /var/lib/portage/world. In fact my world file has just three entries at
the moment: things I'm trying before they're moved to a set.

Neat and tidy.

[OT]

This scheme may seem backwards; I started it when I was going through a great
many reinstallations and wanted to go methodically, one step at a time. First
a core set, then a broader base set, then xorg, plasma and apps. The
appropriate profile would be set for each stage. I'd set up the kernel config
after the core, so that the rest of the base packages had proper kernel
settings to read. That gave me a bootable system and I'd finish the job in the
new system itself.

[Arve Barsnes]

Post by Peter Humphrey

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Arve Barsnes

Post by Walter Dnes
1) Has /var/lib/portage/set_name been deprecated?

No. The new default is now /var/lib/portage. Check your
/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf if you're in doubt about where
your main repo is.

When did that happen? The portage man page still shows /etc/portage/sets/
as the location for user-defined sets.

There seems to be some confusion here. /var/lib/portage is where portage
stores things; /etc/portage is where you store portage things.

Indeed, this was my mistake. Has /var/lib/portage/ ever been possible
for sets? Since the world file is there, I could see an initial
implementation choosing that as the logical destination, but I have no
memory of it.

Regards,
Arve

[Peter Humphrey]

... Has /var/lib/portage/ ever been possible for sets? Since the world file
is there, I could see an initial implementation choosing that as the logical
destination, but I have no memory of it.

Likewise my memory. I doubt it was ever advisable to store any user file under
/var/lib/ -- I'm sure it would cause terrible confusion at some stage. :)