On 12/18/2014 07:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> After reading a few google hits of gentoo documetation about virtual
> pkgs. I still didn't get it.
>
> In my case I'm trying to avoid problems with a self built emacs (25)
> not done thru portage.
>
What are you trying to do, just get emacs-25 installed somehow? If
that's your goal, we have an ebuild in the emacs overlay already:
$ git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs.git
$ PORTDIR_OVERLAY=$(pwd)/emacs ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" \
emerge -pv1 emacs-vcs
