In the future, if you have gentoolkit emerge you can run an `equery d <packagename>` to see what depends upon the package. I find that the easiest way to do things.

-Mike

On 8/21/05, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Holly Bostick wrote:

>Anthony E. Caudel schreef:
>
>
>>Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge
>>system I had done originally.
>>
>>I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely.  But I'm still at a loss
>>why the warning should come up.  Emacs is not listed in base/packages
>>nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in
>>2005.0/packages.  I am correct in thinking these constitute "system,"
>>right.  It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other
>>package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag).
>>
>>Tony
>>
>>
>
>Did you check /etc/portage/package.use? Afaik, USE flags listed there
>are not listed by emerge info, and that's the only other thing I can
>think of; emacs must have been installed as a explicit dependency of a
>particular system package (or sub-dependency of such).
>
>
Nope, nothing relevant in package.use.  Oh well, unmerged it and
revdep-rebuild didn't complain so THWI.

>You could also explicitly set "-emacs" in /etc/make.conf and see what
>changes in an emerge -uaDNtv world (or system), which would not only
>tell you why emacs is involved in this (I, for example, don't have it at
>all, and I suppose our systems are basically similar), as well as
>orphaning the dependency, so you could clean it out safely with a
>depclean (or normally, without the warning).
>
>HTH,
>Holly
>
>

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