Hi guys, I talked with my friend Zac Medico and your @system is mostly here :
/usr/portage/profiles/base Have fun :P From: d2_rac...@hotmail.com To: zmed...@gentoo.org Subject: FW: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'? Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:22:32 +0000 Hi Zac, can you reply to the gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org and close that thread :P Thanks Salut alp > Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:44:36 -0800 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'? > From: markkne...@gmail.com > To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hartman > >> <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> 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... > >>> > >> > >> Thanks Paul. I hadn't thought of that and I think you're correct. I > >> played a bit with changing profiles and then looking at what emerge > >> -epv @system would or would not do. It's clearly related. > >> > >> In the end I wonder if this is a lost cause? If the packages I run > >> really require these flags then they are all going to get built the > >> same way. I'd prefer that @system was simple and that @world showed > >> how I had changed the system to meet my needs, but I'm not sure it's > >> worth the effort at this point to get there. > > > > Looking in the current desktop profile, it shows this: > > > > USE="a52 aac acpi alsa branding cairo cdr dbus dts dvd dvdr eds emboss > > encode evo fam firefox flac gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal jpeg kde > > ldap libnotify mad mikmod mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ogg opengl pdf png ppds > > qt3support qt4 quicktime sdl spell svg thunar tiff truetype vorbis > > win32codecs unicode usb X x264 xml xulrunner xv xvid" > > > > So support for things like gnome, gtk, kde and qt4 are there by > > default. I guess you could take the above list, put a - in front of > > the ones you don't think you want and put it in make.conf and see what > > happens. :) > > > > > Yeah, that's interesting and to some extent anyway probably involved > with why I'm getting a lot of the package I get. What I'm not > understanding yet is what packages themselves are in @system. Where do > those come from? I'm assuming that because of all these flags some > system packages then require more and more support packages as an > avalance, but I'm not understanding what list of packages gets the > whole things started. > > @world is /var/lib/portage/world. > > @system is ? > > Thanks, > Mark > Live connected with Messenger on your phone Learn more. _________________________________________________________________ IM on the go with Messenger on your phone http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9712960