On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 21:35 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 12/31/06, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > However, on most of my machines "system" is empty (went that way soon
> > after each install - no idea why) so all I am left with is "world".
> 
> What do mean?  The "system" package set is defined by
> /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages, and extended by the "packages"
> file of whatever profile you are running.
> 
> Does "emerge -evp system" really report no packages to merge?
> 
> -Richard

rattus ~ # emerge system -ep

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating system dependencies ... done!
rattus ~ #

3 systems like this, one installed only a few months ago works.

:)
BillK

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