Is it an intended behaviour of emerge that # emerge --update <atom> does record the packet in the world file? If so, I would like to have a toggle like "--select" for disabling the recording only for --update and not for all emerge actions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
It doesn't record system packages in the world file. You can edit /var/lib/portage/world manually to add them there.
Looking at portage-2.1.9* this seems to be an intended behaviour. Sorry for the noise.