On Saturday 18 October 2003 14:44, rh wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:21:33 +0900 > > Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 18 October 2003 10:59, rh wrote: > > > Out of curiosity: > > > > > > If I do a 'dep-clean -UNR', it lists a bunch of stuff that > > > supposedly is not depended on by anything else. For example, 'vi'. > > > > > > Since I don't use 'vi', I unemerged it. > > > > > > My question is then, why now when I do a 'emerge -u world' does 'vi' > > > get re-emerged? Doesn't unemergeing it remove it from the realm of > > > the world? Or does this mean something actually does depend upon it? > > > Or am I missing something here? > > > > This sounds like there is a reference to vi in > > /var/cache/edb/virtuals. > > You are good...there is a reference to 'vi' in /var/cache/edb/virtuals. > Can I just edit that file? The next time I 'emerge sync', does this file > get overwritten? > > On a similiar note, I had gnome installed but then removed it as best as > I could from my system yet a reference to gnome-base/gnome appears in the > var/cache/edb/world file. Can I edit it safely?
Yep, that file's fine to edit. Just delete the package references from each virtual or the entire line if there is only one package satisfying a virtual. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
