On 2012-10-08, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Grant Edwards
>> I put this in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep 24 from getting >> installed: >> >> >=app-editors/emacs-24.0 >> >> But emerge -u keeps insisting that it be allowed to re-install emacs 24: [...] >> How do I tell emerge that I don't want emacs 24? > > Portage is telling you how: > >> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >> #required by virtual/emacs-24, required by >> app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.3-r3, required by app-editors/emacs-23.4-r4, >> required by @selected, required by @world (argument) > > You need to also mask >=virtual/emacs-24. I should have tried that. I assumed that if virtual/emacs-24 was required by app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.3-r3 then masking virtual/emacs-24 would just cause a different error. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Were these parsnips at CORRECTLY MARINATED in gmail.com TACO SAUCE?