Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0300, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Actually, you should be able to mask just the virtual, because everything that needs emacs should depend on the virtual, not a particular implementation. But if one uses emacs as their main text editor, I suppose something will be in the world file, and *that* should be a specific implementation, not virtual/*, right? Yes, and in that case just edit your world file to specify app-editors/emacs:23, which is what I added to stop 23 being depcleaned until I was happy with 24. Not that you need to actually edit the file these days emerge --deselect app-editors/emacs emerge --noreplace app-editors/emacs:23 will do nicely. -- Neil Bothwick I used to have a handle on life, then it broke. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0300, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Actually, you should be able to mask just the virtual, because everything that needs emacs should depend on the virtual, not a particular implementation. But if one uses emacs as their main text editor, I suppose something will be in the world file, and *that* should be a specific implementation, not virtual/*, right? Yes, and in that case just edit your world file to specify app-editors/emacs:23, which is what I added to stop 23 being depcleaned until I was happy with 24. Not that you need to actually edit the file these days emerge --deselect app-editors/emacs emerge --noreplace app-editors/emacs:23 will do nicely. I have noticed I have to add select y to your last command. Is it just me? I notice you didn't have that on yours. Just got to ask. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?
On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:57:45 -0500, Dale wrote: Not that you need to actually edit the file these days emerge --deselect app-editors/emacs emerge --noreplace app-editors/emacs:23 will do nicely. I have noticed I have to add select y to your last command. Is it just me? I notice you didn't have that on yours. Just got to ask. --noreplace on its own works fine here. It doesn't re-emerge the package if it is already installed, just adds it to world, whereas --select=y emerges it regardless. -- Neil Bothwick - We are but packets in the internet of Life- signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:57:45 -0500, Dale wrote: Not that you need to actually edit the file these days emerge --deselect app-editors/emacs emerge --noreplace app-editors/emacs:23 will do nicely. I have noticed I have to add select y to your last command. Is it just me? I notice you didn't have that on yours. Just got to ask. --noreplace on its own works fine here. It doesn't re-emerge the package if it is already installed, just adds it to world, whereas --select=y emerges it regardless. Well, here, it doesn't recompile either way, if it is installed. This is weird. I'm on portage-2.2.0_alpha135. I don't run the version tho. Maybe I need to try it again and something has changed. It has been a month or so since I had to use it. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
