Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: To see bare system, do: USE=-* emerge -pev @system Actually, this is a very good way to explore the effect of certain flags on the total package count. Thanks. As a minimum set your command shows USE=-* emerge -pev

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, James Ausmus james.aus...@gmail.com wrote: To see bare system, do: USE=-* emerge -pev @system Actually, this is a very good way to explore the effect of certain flags on the total package

[gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Knecht
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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Freeman
On 03/04/2010 08:44 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread James Ausmus
To see bare system, do: USE=-* emerge -pev @system On Mar 4, 2010 6:02 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gma...

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Where is '@system'?

2010-03-04 Thread malc
cat /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages - and all will be revealed :) All profiles should inherit from this - but may provide their own modifications - e.g. /usr/portage/profiles/arch/sparc/packages adds sparc-utils to @system on that set of platforms. Cheers, malc. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:44