On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:06:32 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I didn't want to have the confusion of another version of emacs > installed so resorted to use of: > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided: like so: > app-editors/emacs-24 > > To tell portage about my home rolled emacs > > Well, that knocks down most of the unwanted pkgs but still as you see: > > emerge -vp emacs-w3m > > [ebuild N ] virtual/emacs-24 0 KiB > [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0 KiB > [ebuild N ] app-emacs/emacs-w3m-1.4.528_pre20140213 > > `virtual/emacs-24' still hanging in there > > I didn't learn enough googling to understand what having that > virtual/emacs-24 installed would mean.
Nothing really. > Would it be possible headaches with emacs-25 installed outside > portage. Unlikely > Can anyone say what that package actually does? A virtual is a way for portage to have one of several option satisfy a dependency. It doesn't install anything but depends on one of a number of packages, in this case emacs and emacs-vcs. It means ebuild writers can depend on emacs but leave you the choice of which brand of emacs to use. Look at the ebuild, or look at the ebuild of virtual/editor to see what a mess ebuilds would be without virtuals. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.
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