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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 10:31:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514103109.GA3053@acm.acm> (raw)

Hi, Gentoo.

Two questions about Portage whose ansers I haven't found in the fine
manuals:

1. Where is it specified what is in "system" in the same way that
"world" is in the file /var/lib/portage/world?

2. How does emerge know which mutt to build when I do "emerge mutt"?
There are three candidate files in /usr/portage/mail-client/mutt, e.g.
mutt-1.5.21-r1.ebuild.

Thanks!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).



             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-14 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-14 10:31 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-05-14 10:51 ` [gentoo-user] Two portage questions Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 14:12   ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-14 15:58     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 15:38   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2011-05-14 16:01     ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-14 16:02     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-14 22:39     ` Mike Edenfield

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