On 10/15/2015 01:06 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 10/15/15 3:15 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> In portage, @world = @profile + @selected + @system, which means that >> @profile is protected from depclean since it's a part of @world. >> >> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532224 > > I thought so but wasn't sure and was about to test. Both @system and > @profile are controlled via the packages file in portage and stack. > Packages in @system lead with an * while @profile don't. @system > packages have incomplete dependency specifications while @profile have > full.
Right. > This affects more than just emerge's ability to parallelize, no? Having complete dependency specifications could be useful for some other things, but allowing for more aggressive parallelization is one of the most obvious advantage. -- Thanks, Zac
