On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:21:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2003 10:59, rh wrote: > > Out of curiosity: > > > > If I do a 'dep-clean -UNR', it lists a bunch of stuff that > > supposedly is not depended on by anything else. For example, 'vi'. > > > > Since I don't use 'vi', I unemerged it. > > > > My question is then, why now when I do a 'emerge -u world' does 'vi' > > get re-emerged? Doesn't unemergeing it remove it from the realm of > > the world? Or does this mean something actually does depend upon it? > > Or am I missing something here? > > This sounds like there is a reference to vi in > /var/cache/edb/virtuals. > > Jason You are good...there is a reference to 'vi' in /var/cache/edb/virtuals. Can I just edit that file? The next time I 'emerge sync', does this file get overwritten? On a similiar note, I had gnome installed but then removed it as best as I could from my system yet a reference to gnome-base/gnome appears in the var/cache/edb/world file. Can I edit it safely? Thx. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list