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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:09:51
Message-Id: 20121008230746.27702c31@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24? by nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)
1 On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:28:55 +0300, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
2
3 > > Actually, you should be able to mask just the virtual, because
4 > > everything that needs emacs should depend on the virtual, not a
5 > > particular implementation.
6 >
7 > But if one uses emacs as their main text editor, I suppose something
8 > will be in the world file, and *that* should be a specific
9 > implementation, not virtual/*, right?
10
11 Yes, and in that case just edit your world file to specify
12 app-editors/emacs:23, which is what I added to stop 23 being depcleaned
13 until I was happy with 24.
14
15 Not that you need to actually edit the file these days
16
17 emerge --deselect app-editors/emacs
18 emerge --noreplace app-editors/emacs:23
19
20 will do nicely.
21
22
23 --
24 Neil Bothwick
25
26 I used to have a handle on life, then it broke.

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