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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:29:25
Message-Id: 4D821A6B.5010100@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:42:30 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>> From man emerge:
6 >>>
7 >>> "world encompasses both the selected and system sets"
8 >>>
9 >> BTW, this can be toggled by putting or not putting 'system' into
10 >> /var/lib/portage/world_sets.
11 >>
12 > That was the case for a while with portage-2.2, but it appears that
13 > @system is now automatically part of @world. That's how I read the man
14 > page that says that @world encompasses @system, without any setting by the
15 > user. A new install no longer includes @system in world_sets.
16 >
17 >
18 >
19
20 That appears to be true here. I have portage 2.2 installed and system
21 is no longer in that file. It used to be but not anymore.
22
23 I wonder how a person would override that if they needed to tho? Not
24 sure why a person would but anyway.
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to a hardened profile and back again Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>