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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] various errors w/ a new install
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:22:35
Message-Id: 20011210172235.B15027@chiba.3jane.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] various errors w/ a new install by Grant Goodyear
1 On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 07:18:53PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > The libgd ebuild refused to build for me because "freetype.h" couldn't
3 > be found. According to the ebuild, there is a
4 > "~media-libs/freetype-1.3.1" dependency, but for some reason emerge
5 > was satisfied w/ freetype-2.0.5. I emerged 1.3.1 by hand, and I'm hoping
6 > that both freetypes will coexist nicely.
7 >
8 > For some reason using crontab -e gives a
9 > "/bin/sh: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory".
10 > I put in a symlink to vim. We should probably add VISUAL=nano to
11 > /etc/profile, since that's our default editor.
12
13 Thanks for the testing, Grant. I think we should patch dcron's crontab
14 command to look at the EDITOR variable, rather than VISUAL. Best to keep
15 things consistent.
16
17 Best Regards,
18
19 --
20 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
21 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
22 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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