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 sign.

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 ftu...@fastmail.fm 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

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 invalid,

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 way.

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 bug was

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 defined set