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From: Nikolay Mikheev <el.vooft@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:12:51
Message-Id: 242a85ce0901131112l76b3077r68833b778187d49c@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emerge question: What's with the @? by Chris Lieb
1 2009/1/13 Chris Lieb <chris.lieb@×××××.com>:
2 > I've noticed lately on the ML that people have been talking about using
3 > package sets, such as @world and @installed. I figured it was a part of
4 > portage 2.1.6* since using @world with 2.1.4* would result in an error
5 > message about an invalid package atom. However, after upgrading to
6 > portage 2.1.6.4, I still get the same error when doing something like
7 > 'emerge -up @world'.
8 >
9 > What are these package sets? What is the difference between 'emerge -up
10 > world' and 'emerge -up @world'? Why don't these package sets ever work
11 > for me?
12 >
13 > Thanks,
14 > Chris
15 >
16 >
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18 You can use sets since portage-2.2. There is no sets in 2.1 branch.
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22 Best regards, Mikheev Nikolay