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 1MgPA8-0003kv-3J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:08 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 0F90AE0951; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5CE7E07FB; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98296E07FB for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 13so19030eye.40 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:54:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=+y+iZo6Qffvjgk1Psg+LVn4JNo0Xdn8isLjwwHBx9lo=; b=OWFCkqca+o7Q0lz0skj9En4o93Zr056ZqzIhi1fBEkUyR30Eo9aveavOfrA0CoG/LO wwCiF+AagefA5h8BhXiuHY3K1Jr8uIt28P3bH9XkYRnV6bhDLn601bIhjt3Rn6KHfSQY fEheD0Dra3ORl0UBKsEMyIfriYSMKu0aqmPaU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=kcF7AYdTCER0z9DrC5P45KRggDxNuD3tjpNgvmPBZn+92O6Hmaw/MI3sKHmwgfP10y GZHo+h2/JgLgOsuJLYF36Wrtb3jYHreznyVTEfouEI/6U9z33GUz9iqbGHt1KVE4JLdp 7PwQAGy+fFcEWwsim3bXlEooz3wTjCHWYzcVA= Received: by 10.210.62.4 with SMTP id k4mr8115189eba.84.1251287688099; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm234425eyx.11.2009.08.26.04.54.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:54:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dependency miracle - please help Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:53:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <0KOZ00C90F12PC80@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> In-Reply-To: <0KOZ00C90F12PC80@mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908261353.18094.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0a14fcd9-5f2f-4627-b2b6-95d359728282 X-Archives-Hash: 3563620b1e9c798164a64a9c2c891365 On Wednesday 26 August 2009 13:38:59 Richard Marzan wrote: > I'm sorry but I have never used @system and @world. What is the difference > and why the new syntax. I will surely rtfm. It's the new set syntax, available in recent 2.2 portages. I believe there is some support in recent 2.1 as well @system consists of the same packages as the old "system" @world is the world set - the contents of your world file. It's not the same as "world" as it excludes "system" whereas "world" implies that system is included. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com