Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?

[Nikolay Mikheev <el.vooft@gmail.com>]

2009/1/13 Chris Lieb <chris.lieb@gmail.com>:
> I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using
> package sets, such as @world and @installed.  I figured it was a part of
> portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error
> message about an invalid package atom.  However, after upgrading to
> portage 2.1.6.4, I still get the same error when doing something like
> 'emerge -up @world'.
>
> What are these package sets?  What is the difference between 'emerge -up
> world' and 'emerge -up @world'?  Why don't these package sets ever work
> for me?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>

You can use sets since portage-2.2. There is no sets in 2.1 branch.


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Best regards, Mikheev Nikolay