On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:00, MIkey wrote: > 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 > > /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.
they're probably recorded since tools like bootstrap.sh do not utilize --oneshot either way, the whole issue is moot as i already pointed out, as portage will add all 'system' packages to the 'world' target automatically (and i dont mean they are recorded in the world file) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list