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Bug 154753

Summary: implement basic set operations
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Wesley Pegden <wes>
Component: Enhancement/Feature RequestsAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Wesley Pegden 2006-11-10 21:36:11 UTC
My feature request is for the implementation of some basic set operations.  Since the only sets now are system and world and system is a subset of world, the only one needed right now would be "difference".  But you might as well throw in intersections, unions, whatever as well.

this way, you could re-emerge your whole system (for example after a gcc upgrade) by doing
emerge -e system
and then
emerge -e [world \minus system]
(or something like that), so that you re-emerge all packages, and the system gets done first.

Also, it's conceivable that sometimes someone would want to emerge world except for a few packages, so it would be nice to have a way of typing out a set from elements; for example
emerge -u --deep [world \minus {openoffice}]
or something like that.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-11 01:46:03 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6411 ***