* Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:57:10 -0600
> Justin R Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > What does 
> > >     emerge system
> > > exactly do ?
> > 
> > system is an alias for a bunch of core packages.  I forgot where it's
> > defined.
> 
> That's the profile. This is cascading. The start point
> is /etc/make.profile (check what the symlink points to) and downwards
> the path (in fact, according to the "parent" files, i.e. "base" is the
> most upward level atm.) to $PORTDIR/profiles in the "packages" files.
> Note that the rest is up to the dependencies. The profile is in fact a
> bunch of default settings, default masks and a default "system" package
> list.

So "system" represents the base system ? 
And "world" represents evrything I emerge'd manually ?


cu
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