Bug 276016

Summary:	Add more --reinstall options
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Blocks:	144480

Description Chris Gianelloni 2009-07-01 00:43:08 UTC

world?
system?

Essentially, everything currently as a package set could be done, or vice-versa (make a @changed-use).  Either way, it should be consistent.

Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-07-01 02:50:21 UTC

What about --emptytree? Is there a case where you'd only want to do the packages directly in the set and not their dependencies?

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2011-05-25 22:22:07 UTC

Since portage-2.1.9 we support separate @world, @system, and @selected sets, where @selected is just the packages from /var/lib/portage/world, and @world is the sum of @selected and @system.

Comment 3 Sebastian Luther (few) 2011-09-20 11:11:30 UTC

I don't think we should provide several ways to do the same thing without a very good reason.
Use package sets for package sets and the various options like --newuse, --update, etc to apply configuration changes to the system. There is no need for consistency between the two kinds of things, since they deal with two different concepts (a set a of packages vs packages for which the configuration has changed).