Re: system set no longer in part of world set

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Markus Rothe <corsair <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> Robert Bridge wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:30:20 +0200
>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > IMHO it would be better to teach users to explicitly specify
>> > '@system' during updates, e.g. `emerge -uDN @system @world`.
>>
>> Why not just re-instate the implicit dependency of world on system?
>
> Paludis has "everything" for updating all packages. Would that be an option
> for portage, too?
>
> I.e. `emerge -uDN @everything`

It exists as well...

>
> -markus
>
> P.S.: where does that '@' come from?
>

'@' denotes that the atom refers to a set and not any other kind of atom.

-Alec
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