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From: Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:55:09
Message-Id: 5789AF70-7223-48C8-A154-C892704D692E@iki.fi
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24 by Harry Putnam
1 > On Dec 19, 2014, at 2:06, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Can anyone say what that package actually does?
4
5 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.
6
7 Run:
8 equery g --depth=2 emacs-w3m
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10 And you'll probably understand better what virtuals do.
11
12 --
13 -Matti

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