On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like emerge -epv @system to be a fairly contained set of > packages. (If possible like it was when I first built the system a > mere 5 weeks ago...) It seems out of control on my system these days > as it wants to emerge 242 packages. One major contributor is not using > a global -cups use flag in make.conf which would reduce it to 178. > That was added to figure out why Gnome didn't see Sups printers at > all. Sure, I would then have to turn on cups for certain packages but > that's OK with me. However I still see cairo, icedtea-bin, virtual > java stuff, alsa-libs, and a bunch of x11-proto files so it doesn't > feel like @system stuff to me > > 1) Where is the 'system' or '@system' specification on my machine? > > 2) If you folks run emerge -epv @system then how machine packages do you see?
I believe it all depends on the profile you're using. If you're using a desktop profile maybe that's why it's calling in GUI toolkits and stuff...
