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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:36:05
Message-Id: 20100624153548.341343c8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ? by Dale
1 On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:22:56 -0500, Dale wrote:
2
3 > > @world includes @system. But the problem is not that emerge world is
4 > > skipping it but that it wants to downgrade gcc:4.4.
5 > >
6 >
7 > From my understanding, world includes @system but @world does not. I
8 > know here on my rig, I run emerge -uvDNa world and it updates
9 > everything installed including deps and the system packages. If I run
10 > @world, it skips the system packages. At least that is the last time I
11 > tried it which was not to long ago.
12 >
13 > One reason I remember this is because of the discussion I had with the
14 > devs on -dev. That is why @system is in /var/lib/portage/world_sets.
15 > I noticed a few weeks ago that there are a couple others added to it as
16 > well. The devs did it that way so that when folks like me upgrade the
17 > old fashioned way and just use world instead of @system and @world.
18 >
19 > Has this changed?
20
21 No, the world_sets file still includes @system by default, which is why
22 @world includes @system.
23
24 The additions are from when you emerged sets, which adds then to
25 world_sets.
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29 Neil Bothwick
30
31 Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.

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