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On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 19:22, Francesco Turco wrote: |
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> I'm still not convinced. emerge(1) man page for portage-2.1.11.37 |
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> already contains the following command example: |
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> > emerge --update --newuse --deep @world |
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> And: |
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> > emerge --update @world |
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> But not a single example without the at sign. |
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> I also found this (old) blog post from Portage developer Zac Medico: |
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> http://blogs.gentoo.org/zmedico/2010/09/07/portage_2-1-9_release/. It |
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> says: |
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> > Package set names in emerge arguments have to be prefixed with @ (exceptions: ‘world’ and ‘system’ can be used without the prefix). |
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> So it seems that since version 2.1.9 @world and world (and @system and |
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> system) are just treated in the same way, but prefixing them with the at |
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> symbol is more future-proof. |
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I contacted Zac Medico and he said me: |
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> Yes, @world is more future proof. I don't plan to deprecate the old way |
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any time soon, but it could happen at some point in the future. |
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It seems pretty clear to me. Plain "world" is not wrong, but "@world" is |
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the way to go. |
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