Bug 610670

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: support -* in profile "packages" files
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core - Configuration	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	611328

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-02-23 10:45:13 UTC

Minimal systems can be assembled entirely from binary packages, eliminating the need for many of the packages that are required in a system that is capable of building packages. In order to create profiles for minimal systems like these, it would be useful to be able to use -* in the "packages" files, in order to discard unneeded packages from parent profiles. For example, gentoo's "base" profile contains many settings that are essential for all profiles, but without support for -* in the "packages" file, it is unnecessarily difficult for minimal profile that inherits it to negate all of the atoms found in the base "packages" file.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-02-23 10:58:50 UTC

Patch posted for review:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/b4e22897149bb722767ab6767a31e6aa
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/125

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-02-23 16:35:08 UTC

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=f4b0714010f1237280fd48dcb65989679917d20a

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-05-20 18:18:48 UTC

Fixed in portage-2.3.5.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-05-28 04:47:00 UTC

Documentation patch posted:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/d759ee92123407f1946b283498469da1
https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/166

Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2017-05-30 10:01:03 UTC

Documentation is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=90a15aad608c87a7a03dade22592fa95a0ac4fbd