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From: Francesco Turco <fturco@fastmail.fm>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:53:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355313181.4605.140661165059833.3797A1E2@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)

Hello.

A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook
I found some references of the "world" set in emerge commands, as
opposed to "@world": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184

The bug was closed as invalid, and I was told that:

> sets with the @ prefix are a portage-2.2 feature, which is still hardmasked and thus not documented.

The fact is that I have portage-2.1.11.37, not 2.2, and man emerge says:

> When used  as  arguments to emerge sets have to be prefixed with @ to be recognized.

One possibility is that documentation stick with the stable portage
package, not the testing one (I have a ~amd64 system only). But I
checked portage 2.1.11.31 (the latest stable amd64 portage package
version) and the previous phrase is there, too.

I know it's not a very important issue, but I'd still like to know if
I'm wrong or not, and why.

Thank you.


             reply	other threads:[~2012-12-12 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12 11:53 Francesco Turco [this message]
2012-12-12 13:18 ` [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world) Alan McKinnon
2012-12-12 14:53   ` Randy Barlow
2012-12-12 18:22   ` Francesco Turco
2012-12-14 10:29     ` Francesco Turco
2012-12-12 14:10 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-12-12 15:03 ` Bruce Hill

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