Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was thinking profiles and not the emerge system I had done originally.
I use nano so I guess I can unmerge it safely. But I'm still at a loss why the warning should come up. Emacs is not listed in base/packages nor linux-default/packages nor x86/packages and finally not in 2005.0/packages. I am correct in thinking these constitute "system," right. It also is not in my make.conf nor is it pulled in by any other package (emerge info does not list it as a USE flag). Tony Willie Wong wrote: >emacs provides virtual/editor > >The system profile is a set of programs that is necessary for your >computer to boot and build other programs. One of this things you need >to do to boot a computer is to edit the configuration files in /etc, >for that you need an editor. The system profile (you can see what it >brings in by "emerge --emptytree --pretend system") requires something >that satisfies virtual/editor, and by default I think gentoo uses >nano. If you have another editor, like nano, or vim, or pico, then you >should be fine to unmerge emacs. > >W > >On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 04:50:50PM -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > > >>I was going to unmerge emacs ( I don't use it ) but was warned: >> >>!!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'app-editors/emacs' >>!!! This could be damaging to your system. >> >>What is my system profile? Is it my default profile: >> >>/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0? >> >>and why would emacs be in there. I looked in the files in there and did >>not find anything significant. >> >>Tony >> >> >> >> >>-- >>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary >>Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. >> -- Benjamin Franklin >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > > > -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
