--- reg hughson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The man page states that
> emerge generates a list of packages which it expects
> to be installed by checking the system package list
> and the world file.
>
> Which brings me to my final questions...where is
> this package list? Is it, as one person already
> stated, simply the list of directories, etc. below
> /var/lib/pkg? And if it is, then how does one do an
> "emerge -Du" on the package list, not just the world
> list, thereby updating EVERYTHING on your system?
>
The system package list comes from the profile linked
from /etc/make.profile. Portage uses stacked or
cascading profiles now so it uses all the "package"
files of your profile and all the ones inherited from
it's parents.
In the emerge manpage it says that the system class is
a subset of the world class so "emerge -uDN world"
does everything.
Zac
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