From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NnGJi-0007is-9E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:02:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBCBAE1015 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7416FE0CE5 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:22:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi2 with SMTP id 2so1666932pwi.40 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=XmCcb1JexTWD6N8tR/UT9MILORAm7CTmjrugpkA6P74=; b=rmA3ipyUIOBUT2vQjLCBtoGNX7uJ4RIcppOr6zV2vuziEKDczzBhF/qfZwD9Fi2VzC Q5geR+Z3cYBvdxdcZ+0DkEe5gn0rn8BrhHmYSJ+mulMtZyVdMUQkkUfnq5ML7I1WrPRE EUcULKbSM6ydfj7FhMsV9J6tIE5ZaZCSI25Ok= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=QNRXuUYCCw7+7l76bPcUJZonY1cq8lb2j8G5kDXPZYxgfaJyRdQjKbVGmnYKaQsRDO OLItDu3HB9JIQYL+JkNQ7GpeiIP5Sfc8aVLIds4O/baHE68hUvqs2YWCQdtGySdPZjyA ywjexXslQND4ERtvZRvQg21xE4FtlDW+3EkK0= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.20.35 with SMTP id x35mr5726571wfi.116.1267726933948; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:22:13 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1003041022m56127645xc0b7bed58fad20dd@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: b424cc08-57d2-4cd7-a6cc-3afe2acd963f X-Archives-Hash: 93b487b14ba9a96f77d293eae1b270f1 I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days as it wants to emerge 242 packages. One major contributor is not using a global -cups use flag in make.conf which would reduce it to 178. That was added to figure out why Gnome didn't see Sups printers at all. Sure, I would then have to turn on cups for certain packages but that's OK with me. However I still see cairo, icedtea-bin, virtual java stuff, alsa-libs, and a bunch of x11-proto files so it doesn't feel like @system stuff to me 1) Where is the 'system' or '@system' specification on my machine? 2) If you folks run emerge -epv @system then how machine packages do you see? Cheers, Mark P.S. - This actually started as a question about why the newest version of portage won't emerge without changes in what versions of QT the system is running and asking why portage requires QT at all, but I'll get to that one later. ;-) An interesting if mildly related post, at least in spirit... http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/02/22/what-s-wrong-with-gentoo-anyway