[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-10-08, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Grant Edwards

>> I put this in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep 24 from getting
>> installed:
>>
>>    >=app-editors/emacs-24.0
>>
>> But emerge -u keeps insisting that it be allowed to re-install emacs 24:
[...]
>> How do I tell emerge that I don't want emacs 24?
>
> Portage is telling you how:
>
>>    The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>>    #required by virtual/emacs-24, required by app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.3-r3, required by app-editors/emacs-23.4-r4, required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
>
> You need to also mask >=virtual/emacs-24.

I should have tried that.  I assumed that if virtual/emacs-24 was
required by app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.3-r3 then masking
virtual/emacs-24 would just cause a different error.

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