* 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service phone: +49 36207 519931 www: http://www.metux.de/ fax: +49 36207 519932 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cellphone: +49 174 7066481 --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- DSL ab 0 Euro. -- statische IP -- UUCP -- Hosting -- Webshops -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list