Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:06, MIkey wrote: >> Why should system packages (determined by your profile) be present in the >> world file on official stage1/3 tarballs? > > whether they are in the world file itself doesnt really matter > > the "world" target includes all the packages listed in the world file plus > everything that is part of the "system" target ... portage adds them > together automatically > -mike
/var/lib/portage/world should only contain the names of packages you explicitly emerge (without --oneshot). As far as I know an official stage3 tarball should only contain packages installed as a result of a system emerge, which should never enter them into the world file. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
