Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by >> hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself. > [snip] >> Emerge wants to install another emacs. How can I tell it I already >> have emacs installed? > > While it would mean re-installing emacs, you could use the emacs-cvs > ebuild which builds emacs from cvs head. To keep up-to-date you just > have to re-emerge and you will build with the latest changes.
That sounds like a smart move.. The reason I usually build emacs by hand is that I like to use the general setup that emacs developers deemed standard. No added stuff in site-start.el or default.el. Or some central emacs.d setup in /etc or the like. Other distros I've used like to make changes there (redhat, and especially debian). I don't really know how emacs gets installed on gentoo but didn't want to find out by breaking my own setup until I scoped it out. An example might be that if emacs isn't installed at /usr/local its already outside the standard emacs install. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
