X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Received: from mail.koorogi.info (koorogi.info [198.74.62.75]) by lists.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E055C594C for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:12:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mail.koorogi.info (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1BAFDE3EF; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:12:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:12:45 -0600 From: Bobby Bingham To: Timo Teras Cc: Steffen Nurpmeso , alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] apk: package "grouping"? Message-ID: <20181113181245.GA15037@gordon> References: <20181113150523.6IZfu%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20181113191851.1fec6483@vostro> X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181113191851.1fec6483@vostro> X-Operating-System: Linux gordon 4.7.5-gentoo User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 07:18:51PM +0200, Timo Teras wrote: > Hi, > > I generally do my own meta-packages and host internal repository. This > allows also updating the meta-packages pretty easily. > > Doing apk/world.d/ or similar is an interesting idea too. But I need to > think about it more. Mostly it's if there's an use case where this > works better than the meta-packages in own repository. > > Thoughts? This sounds a lot like the concept of package sets in portage, and is one of the things I miss the most coming from Gentoo. One place I find it useful is when trying to build a piece of software that isn't packaged. I need to install a number of *-dev packages that I'll just uninstall after I get the build working. There may be a large number of them, and I may keep discovering more dependencies as I go, both of which make it harder to keep track of the packages to uninstall at the end. By adding them via a package set, it becomes trivial to just uninstall the whole set at the end. I do have a local package repository, but creating a throw away package whose entire purpose is to be easy to uninstall has always seemed like overkill. -- Bobby --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---