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A Portage set is a group of packages defined by Portage features and identified by a name. A set may be used to apply operations to a group of packages automatically or to distinguish groups of packages. An administrator may use predefined sets or define new sets. Generally, an administrator installs packages using emerge with atoms, on the command line. However, sets may simplify management of packages.

Example

Package sets overview

user $file /etc/portage/sets.conf

/etc/portage/sets.conf: ASCII text

user $file /etc/portage/sets

/etc/portage/sets: directory

user $ls /etc/portage/sets

donaldSet larrySet server misc

user $ls /var/lib/portage/world*

world world_sets

Sets configurations

FILE /etc/portage/sets.conf

[users]
class = portage.sets.base.DummyPackageSet
packages = @donaldSet @larrySet

[donald]
class = portage.sets.files.StaticFileSet
multiset = True
directory = /home/donald/.emerge/sets

[larry]
class = portage.sets.files.StaticFileSet
multiset = True
directory = /home/larry/.emerge/sets

FILE /etc/portage/sets/donaldSet

@donaldDesktop
@donaldGame
@donaldPackage

FILE /etc/portage/sets/larrySet

@larryDevel
@larryNetwork
@larryPackage
@larrySci

FILE /var/lib/portage/world_sets

@users

Package sets made by users

user $ mkdir -pv ~/.emerge/sets

user $ chmod 750 ~/.emerge

root # ls ~donald/.emerge/sets/

donaldDesktop donaldGame donaldPackage

root #ls ~larry/.emerge/sets/

larryDevel larryNetwork larryPackage larrySci

root # cat ~larry/.emerge/sets/larryDevel

app-editors/sublime-text
www-client/google-chrome-beta
www-apps/wordpress

root # cat ~larry/.emerge/sets/larryPackage

media-video/vlc
app-office/libreoffice
mail-client/thunderbird
xfce-base/xfce4-meta