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In the future, if you have gentoolkit emerge you can run an `equery d |
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<packagename>` to see what depends upon the package. I find that the easiest |
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way to do things. |
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-Mike |
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On 8/21/05, Anthony E. Caudel <acaudel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> >Anthony E. Caudel schreef: |
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> >>Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge |
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> >>system I had done originally. |
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> >>I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely. But I'm still at a loss |
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> >>why the warning should come up. Emacs is not listed in base/packages |
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> >>nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in |
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> >>2005.0/packages. I am correct in thinking these constitute "system," |
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> >>right. It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other |
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> >>package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag). |
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> >>Tony |
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> >Did you check /etc/portage/package.use? Afaik, USE flags listed there |
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> >are not listed by emerge info, and that's the only other thing I can |
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> >think of; emacs must have been installed as a explicit dependency of a |
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> >particular system package (or sub-dependency of such). |
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> Nope, nothing relevant in package.use. Oh well, unmerged it and |
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> revdep-rebuild didn't complain so THWI. |
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> >You could also explicitly set "-emacs" in /etc/make.conf and see what |
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> >changes in an emerge -uaDNtv world (or system), which would not only |
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> >tell you why emacs is involved in this (I, for example, don't have it at |
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> >all, and I suppose our systems are basically similar), as well as |
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> >orphaning the dependency, so you could clean it out safely with a |
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> >depclean (or normally, without the warning). |
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> >HTH, |
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> >Holly |
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> -- |
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> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. |
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> -- Benjamin Franklin |
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________________________________ |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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