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 -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list