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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: News item: World file handling changes in
From:       Vaeth <vaeth () mathematik ! uni-wuerzburg ! de>
Date:       2008-08-20 8:13:42
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0808200959460.30332 () wmax001 ! mathematik ! uni-wuerzburg ! de
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Duncan wrote:
> I believe that's the way it is now, yes.  Thus what we're proposing would 
> simply keep the legacy meaning for world (and system) as they are, while 
> @world (and @system) would refer to the specific sets.
> 
> Now that it has been suggested, I do believe that's the simplest way to 
> handle it, since it would involve no change at all for the existing 
> words.

One could avoid the confusion about world != @world completely,
if one would simply rename @world into e.g. @worldfile

Then one could define without any ambiguity
  world = @world = @worldfile + @system
(and of course, one should then let @system not be a @worldfile candidate,
at least by default).

I am aware that currently @world is already implemented, but only in
testing portage and probably not too many user scripts have been converted
to this already (resp. _if_ they have been converted, they have most
probably been converted from "world" to "@world @system" which would
not harm either).

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