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From: Markus Rothe <corsair@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:21:35
Message-Id: 20080719062132.GA3076@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set by Robert Bridge
1 Robert Bridge wrote:
2 > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:30:20 +0200
3 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > IMHO it would be better to teach users to explicitly specify
6 > > '@system' during updates, e.g. `emerge -uDN @system @world`.
7 >
8 > Why not just re-instate the implicit dependency of world on system?
9
10 Paludis has "everything" for updating all packages. Would that be an option
11 for portage, too?
12
13 I.e. `emerge -uDN @everything`
14
15 -markus
16
17 P.S.: where does that '@' come from?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>