Support for portage sets

[vikraman]

Continuing from #70

[vikraman]

I would like to propose the following feature:

package_set { 'foo': ensure => installed }

will ensure that @foo is present in world_sets.

package_set { 'foo': ensure => latest }

will run emerge -u @foo.

Now, what about these?

package_set { 'system': ensure => latest }
package_set { 'world': ensure => latest }

[tampakrap]

I don't see why we should have it, we can install sets with the normal package provider via package { '@foo': }

[p8952]

@tampakrap, can you please confirm that? The reason I originally wrote this was that installing sets via the package provider did not work.

[tampakrap]

Indeed, it does not work. We're going to skip this feature for the upcoming release, thus I'll check the implementation details later.

[tampakrap]

any chance we can fix the upstream portage package provider to use an appropriate eix command to check sets as well?

[robbat2]

Dead PR, closing