Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Dec 19, 2014, at 2:06, Harry Putnam 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 --dep

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/18/2014 07:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > After reading a few google hits of gentoo documetation about virtual > pkgs. I still didn't get it. > > In my case I'm trying to avoid problems with a self built emacs (25) > not done thru portage. > What are you trying to do, just get emacs-25 inst

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
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 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Nils Holland
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:06:32PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > 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-w3

[gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
After reading a few google hits of gentoo documetation about virtual pkgs. I still didn't get it. In my case I'm trying to avoid problems with a self built emacs (25) not done thru portage. I'm not looking to discuss the pros and cons of doing in this thead, but want to understand how it will ef