> 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
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
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
>
>
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
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
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