> On Dec 19, 2014, at 2:06, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> 
> Can anyone say what that package actually does?

virtual/emacs-24 installs a directory emacs-24 under /var/db/virtual/ and it 
takes around 10sec. This dir is only used by portage to figure out what you 
have in your system.

Run:
equery g --depth=2 emacs-w3m

And you'll probably understand better what virtuals do.

-- 
-Matti

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