Alan McKinnon wrote:
The portage man page has unfortunately also used the word "set" for a
different reason. Portage has always had a concept of "world" (not
@world) and "system" (not @system) which were really "just a bunch of
stuff that happens to pop out of portage because it's hard-coded that
way".
This discussion is surprising to me, because I've been using @world in
my updates for a little while, but I don't have 2.2:
$ equery list portage
* Searching for portage ...
[IP-] [ ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.31:0
I performed a diff on the output of emerge -pvDuN world and @world, and
they were the same.
I even got an error about some required use flags when I ran emerge with
"world" that referenced @world:
The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by app-emulation/virt-manager-0.9.4[spice], required by
@selected, required by @world (argument)
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