Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

emacs provides virtual/editor

The system profile is a set of programs that is necessary for your
computer to boot and build other programs. One of this things you need
to do to boot a computer is to edit the configuration files in /etc,
for that you need an editor. The system profile (you can see what it
brings in by "emerge --emptytree --pretend system") requires something
that satisfies virtual/editor, and by default I think gentoo uses
nano. If you have another editor, like nano, or vim, or pico, then you
should be fine to unmerge emacs. 

W

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:50:50PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> I was going to unmerge emacs ( I don't use it ) but was warned:
> 
> !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/emacs'
> !!! This could be damaging to your system.
> 
> What is my system profile?  Is it my default profile:
> 
> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0?
> 
> and why would emacs be in there.  I looked in the files in there and did
> not find anything significant.
> 
> Tony
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> 
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