On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:38:56 +0100, Mike Auty wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: >> Maybe the best solution is to drop the non-prefixed versions of 'world' >> and 'system' completely .... > > Deprecating the old syntax sounds like a sensible action to get people > shifted onto the new system. I imagine it would work very similarly to > "emerge info" at the moment?
Speaking purely as a user, from a usability perspective it's a horrible idea. Don't make me remember special things. To me there is no discernible difference between "system" and "@system", except that I have to remember to prefix the latter over and over again. Different things need different names. Doesn't portage have more pressing problems? In the last 6 years of using Gentoo I cannot remember a single instance where the difference between system and world even mattered to me from an operational point of view. Holger
