From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E6vnA-00071c-9w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:47:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7LJjcnC030645; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:45:38 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7LJeWWn031302 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:40:33 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-68-201-117-76.gt.res.rr.com [68.201.117.76]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j7LJf4e1006570 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:41:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4308D8CF.8090003@gt.rr.com> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:41:03 -0500 From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050807) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs References: <4307A5BA.6070506@gt.rr.com> <20050820231047.GB17640@princeton.edu> <4308354C.2040107@gt.rr.com> <43086EAC.8040900@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <43086EAC.8040900@planet.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 2e6323c7-bb97-4c52-8a6b-618cf5e68df7 X-Archives-Hash: a5b7a7934373b44c063651ec621c0339 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 > > -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list