Sets

Sets are short forms for collections of packages.

They are roughly equivalent to specifying that same list of packages on the command line, however packages within a set will not be selected if installing using a set, and the set itself will be selected.

You can refer to a set using @, followed by the set name.

E.g. portmod <prefix> merge -uDN @world, or portmod <prefix> merge @rebuild.

The builtin sets include:

• world: Equivalent to selected + system. This is usually the only set you need to interact with. It includes all packages that you want or need, not including their dependencies.

• system: Packages required by the profile which cannot be removed.

• selected: Equivalent to selected-sets + selected-packages

• selected-sets: User-selected sets (not including builtin sets).

• selected-packages: The user-selected list of packages. This includes any package you have explicitly installed (i.e. installed without the --oneshot/-1 option). It does not include dependencies which were installed implicitly.

• installed: All currently installed packages.

• rebuild: Packages are added to this set automatically for certain unusual packages when they are determined to need to be rebuilt. A warning message will be displayed when you need to use this set.

  Deprecated since version 2.4: The rebuild set is from a deprecated feature and will no longer be a built-in set in Portmod 3.0. However, there is a module which replaces this functionality.

You can also create custom User Sets

Module Sets

New in version 2.4.

Sets created in the var/sets directory within the prefix will be used first when looking up sets. This allows Modules to create and manage their own sets. Module-created sets always have priority over User Sets.