Re: [gentoo-dev] Resolve build time default editor dependency. (was: How get ebuild provider virtual/category.)

[Peter Volkov (pva)]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:15 +0000, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> The only `hardcoded` editor is the fallback editor for
> visudo

And this is the problem I'm talking about. I do not see any reasons to
keep this not working fallback. There are parts of code that just do not
work in Gentoo.

> which can be set with the editor default in sudoers.

That's good. But some packages (I'm talking about practically *all*
crontab, vipw, vigr and may be other applications) do not have such
configuration file to configure that default editor.

And IMO configuration file should change *sane* defaults but I do not
think nano is sane default ;)

Thus I suggested either remove non working fallback in packages
(patching sources) or fix unpredictable and non-working fallback by
adding some sane default (that was /usr/bin/editor in my initial mail).
In other cases current behavior is a bug (some part of program is not
working as intended by upstream). And note suggested trivial fix as a
side effect makes virtual/editor conform glep 37 (also good).

Hope I've made points a bit clearer.

Peter.