User:Garbanzo/Drafts

Package Sets are Article description::sets of packages used by portage. They can be passed as an argument to emerge by prepending with '@':

The list of available sets can be found by:

@selected-packages
The selected-packages sets contains the user-selected "world" packages that are listed in the file. It is the set of packages that have been explicitly installed by the user.

@selected
The selected set is the union of @selected-package and @selected-sets.

@system
The system set is the base set of packages on a Gentoo system.

@profile
The profile set along with @system is the minimum set of packages deemed necessary for a Gentoo system to run properly.

world
The world is the union of @selected, @system, and @world.