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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] dependencies that aren't
From:       rh <reg.hughson () sympatico ! ca>
Date:       2003-10-18 5:44:52
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:21:33 +0900
Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> 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.


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