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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I believe it all depends on the profile you're using. If you're using
> a desktop profile maybe that's why it's calling in GUI toolkits and
> stuff...
>

Thanks Paul. I hadn't thought of that and I think you're correct. I
played a bit with changing profiles and then looking at what emerge
-epv @system would or would not do. It's clearly related.

In the end I wonder if this is a lost cause? If the packages I run
really require these flags then they are all going to get built the
same way. I'd prefer that @system was simple and that @world showed
how I had changed the system to meet my needs, but I'm not sure it's
worth the effort at this point to get there.

Cheers,
Mark