On Sonntag 24 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 24 May 2009 20:06:59 Arttu V. wrote: > > On 5/24/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files > > > can contain several entries). So, you have to run > > > > > > find /usr/portage/profiles -name packages > > > > > > to find them all, and apply brain power to find the few that actually > > > apply > > > > Cascading yes, but I'd say no to the find-command. You should be able > > to ask portage itself. After all, it has to know your current system > > set for its own work, let it do the cascading calculations (unions for > > sets): > > Dale asked *where* system is defined, not what it consists of. > > These are entirely different questions with entirely different answers. > > > emerge -p @system > > > > And even better, if I read correctly from portage man-page (look for > > the "packages" and packages.build file section there), it is nearly > > trivial to add files to a local system set. Just add > > asterisk-prepended lines to /etc/portage/profile/packages. Just tried > > it, it seems to work, got python and games-board/megamek added to my > > system set according to emerge -p @system! :D > > It appears you are completely missing the point. It is indeed very easy to > add things to the @system set, but we are talking about the system set, and > it is broken out of the box as shipped. Look at the size of this thread > already and what it has taken to gain the understanding we have now. How is > a new user supposed to be able to figure this out? > > Portage will not let you unmerge portage or gcc without a fight. It offers > a way to back up these critical packages. No rational person will attempt > to argue that python in a *portage* system is not subject to the same > constraints. > > But it's not working that way today. Ergo, it is broken.
maybe you should mention that on gentoo-dev.
