Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:43:22 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Bobby Bingham <koorogi@koorogi.info>
Cc: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>,
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] apk: package "grouping"?
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:12:45 -0600
Bobby Bingham <koorogi@koorogi.info> wrote:

> 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 use `apk add --virtual .mydeps foo-dev bar-dev` and when done: `apk
del .mydeps` for this.

But it seems like you cannot append deps afterwards.

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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