Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-14 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 19:22, Francesco Turco wrote: > I'm still not convinced. emerge(1) man page for portage-2.1.11.37 > already contains the following command example: > > emerge --update --newuse --deep @world > > And: > > emerge --update @world > > But not a single example without the at

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You are wrong, the docs and the man pages are correct. > > The problem is that the word "set" is used in two different ways, one > loosely and the other with reference to an exact construct. > > portage-2.2 introduced the concept of "a define

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:53:01PM +0100, Francesco Turco wrote: > Hello. > > A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook > I found some references of the "world" set in emerge commands, as > opposed to "@world": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184 > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Randy Barlow
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

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/12/2012 06:53 AM, Francesco Turco wrote: > Hello. > > A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook > I found some references of the "world" set in emerge commands, as > opposed to "@world": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184 > > The bug was closed as

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:53:01 +0100 Francesco Turco wrote: > Hello. > > A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation > Handbook I found some references of the "world" set in emerge > commands, as opposed to "@world": > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184 > > The bug

[gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook I found some references of the "world" set in emerge commands, as opposed to "@world": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184 The bug was closed as invalid, and I was told that: > sets with the @ prefix are a