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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:10 AM

# emerge -up world
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r21 [2.0.49-r20]
[ebuild UD] x11-libs/openmotif-2.1.30-r3 [2.2.2-r1]
[ebuild N ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.12
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r4 [1.18.1-r3]
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 [2.57-r1]
[ebuild U ] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.9.7-r1 [0.1.14-r20

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?

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#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:10 AM

Captains log; stardate Tuesday 13 January 2004 05:00 am, Lieutenant GimmeFuel reported that.......

> # emerge -up world
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r21 [2.0.49-r20]
> [ebuild UD] x11-libs/openmotif-2.1.30-r3 [2.2.2-r1]
> [ebuild N ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.12
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r4 [1.18.1-r3]
> [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 [2.57-r1]
> [ebuild U ] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.9.7-r1 [0.1.14-r20
>
> 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
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Processor: AuthenticAMD i686

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:10 AM

GimmeFuel wrote:

> # emerge -up world
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r21 [2.0.49-r20]
> [ebuild UD] x11-libs/openmotif-2.1.30-r3 [2.2.2-r1]
> [ebuild N ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.12
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r4 [1.18.1-r3]
> [ebuild U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 [2.57-r1]
> [ebuild U ] x11-wm/fluxbox-0.9.7-r1 [0.1.14-r20
>
> 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 running emerge with '-d'. The output will be quite verbose, so you
might want to pipe it to 'less'. Look for anything mentioning xemacs,
and read back a little. That'll give you a clue as to why emerge thinks
xemacs is needed. It's the same method I used to figure out why tetex
kept being recursively upgraded and downgraded.

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"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."
-- William Gilbert

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:11 AM

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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