Zac Medico posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:53:20 -0800 as excerpted:

> On 12/06/2011 09:21 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> Zac Medico posted on Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:45:26 -0800 as excerpted:
>> 
>>> /var/lib/portage/world_sets (in stable portage, @selected currently
>>> only pulls in atoms from /var/lib/portage/world).
>> 
>> If @selected only pulls in /var/lib/portage/world , what pulls in
>> /var/lib/portage/world_sets ?  You mention it, but don't say what pulls
>> it in, if as you say @selected doesn't.
> 
> Currently, in portage-2.2.x, @selected pulls in both
> /var/lib/portage/world and /var/lib/portage/world_sets. If we want, we
> can easily do it that way in stable too.

Thanks for the clarification.

I missed your "in stable portage" clause that was right there in the bit 
I quoted, and was rather confused as a result. =:^(

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