System set (Portage)
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The system set, also referred to as @system in Portage development, contains the software packages required for a standard Gentoo Linux installation to run properly.
The system packages are defined by the Gentoo profiles (through the packages files). An end-user can easily see which packages are seen as part of the system set by running the following emerge command:
user $emerge --pretend @systemSee also
- Package sets — describes package sets in high detail and includes a list of all typically available sets on a Gentoo system.
- /etc/portage/sets — an optional directory that is used to create user defined package sets
- World set (Portage) — encompasses the system set, the selected set, and the @profile set.
- Selected set (Portage) — contains the packages the admin has explicitly installed
- Selected-packages_set_(Portage) — contains the user-selected "world" packages that are listed in the /var/lib/portage/world file.