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Old 02-21-2008, 07:11 AM
GimmeFuel
 
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Default Re: emerge -up world wants to build xemacs

Shan Destromp wrote:

>>Why does xemacs show up? I had it emerged but then I unmerged it; it's not
>>in world anymore. 'emerge xemacs && emerge -C xemacs' didn't do anything.
>>I've also used emerge -upv world to see what USE flags are active, but no
>>combination of USE flags I've tried will make xemacs go away. I asked in
>>#gentoo, all they could come up with was that something depends on xemacs,
>>but what? I'm almost positive I haven't emerged anything that needs on it.
>>Is there any way to tell why portage thinks I need xemacs?

>
> try editing /var/cache/edb/world and /var/cache/edb/virtuals to see if its referenced there.
> Sometimes they don't get properly updated on an emerge -C


I had checked world, but not virtuals. xemacs was in there, and removing
it solved my problem. Thanks for your help.

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