On 1/21/26 6:01 PM, Jay Faulkner wrote: > I think about it this way: > > @system = packages selected by gentoo (and your profile) as required for > a base system > > @selected = packages you chose to install (e.g. `emerge packageName` > "selects" packageName, but packageNameLib which is a dependency is not > in @selected) > > @world = @selected + @system > > @world + (required deps for those packages) = @installed (I've been > using gentoo for *decades* and have never had a reason to type > @installed on the command line).
Not all installed packages are required deps for @world, some of them simply have not had emerge --depclean run yet. :) -- Eli Schwartz
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