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From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>, "Olivier CrĂȘte" <tester@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new-style virtual/editor
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:17:43
Message-Id: 200710072105.16446.rbu@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] new-style virtual/editor by Alec Warner
1 On Sunday, 7. October 2007, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > On 10/7/07, Robert Buchholz <rbu@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Friday, 5. October 2007, Olivier CrĂȘte wrote:
4 > > > On Fri, 2007-05-10 at 11:46 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > > > > How many packages depend on virtual/editor? Should it be a
6 > > > > virtual at all?
7 > > >
8 > > > <Tester_> !rdep virtual/editor
9 > > > <jeeves> virtual/editor <- app-admin/sudo sys-process/fcron
10 > > >
11 > > > I think the answer is none that really should, I would favor just
12 > > > removing virtual/editor.
13 > >
14 > > A lot more applications need it, see subversion and cvs, which
15 > > invoke $EDITOR.
16 >
17 > I think you missed the train when someone mentioned we put an editor
18 > in system, thus making one always available.
19
20 I thought this discussion was going into a direction that had the system
21 dependency removed. I guess I was mistaking.
22
23 Robert

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