Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:28:54 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > IIRC, @system is not in @world unless you put it there yourself.
> > > (This might depend on your portage version, though).
> >
> > I'm sure I once saw a comment in a portage version that @system was
> > being included in @world to preserve earlier behaviour.
>
> From man emerge:
>
> "world encompasses both the selected and system sets"
BTW, this can be toggled by putting or not putting 'system' into
/var/lib/portage/world_sets.
Wonko
