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From: Alec Warner <antarus@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 07:11:52
Message-Id: b41005390807190011h66b8e7f6p8ba5c55d88df70e1@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] system set no longer in part of world set by Markus Rothe
1 On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Markus Rothe <corsair@g.o> wrote:
2 > Robert Bridge wrote:
3 >> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:30:20 +0200
4 >> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>
6 >> > IMHO it would be better to teach users to explicitly specify
7 >> > '@system' during updates, e.g. `emerge -uDN @system @world`.
8 >>
9 >> Why not just re-instate the implicit dependency of world on system?
10 >
11 > Paludis has "everything" for updating all packages. Would that be an option
12 > for portage, too?
13 >
14 > I.e. `emerge -uDN @everything`
15
16 It exists as well...
17
18 >
19 > -markus
20 >
21 > P.S.: where does that '@' come from?
22 >
23
24 '@' denotes that the atom refers to a set and not any other kind of atom.
25
26 -Alec
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