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On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:23:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:15:09 +0300, Arthur D. wrote: |
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> > And, yes, I prefer VIM. And I don't like when the package which |
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> > vanilla defaults were always to be using vim as editor is overwritten |
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> > without any notifications and causing the enduser to investigate |
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> > how to fix that. |
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> Would you have the same argument if the vanilla default was emacs and the |
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> ebuild changed it to vim? All you're complaining about is that a distro |
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> that expects users to configure everything for themselves is expecting |
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> you to add one line to a config file. |
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> This "problem" could also be fixed by USE flags. Instead of whining why |
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> not submit a patch that has the ebuild respect the vanilla USE flag? |
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USE flags is nice, except ls /usr/portage/app-editors/ | wc -l returns |
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76 packages (give or take a file or two). So we are looking at, uh, ~75 |
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USE flags for the sudo ebuild, no counting the editors which aren't in |
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app-editor (like ed, which resides in sys-apps instead of app-editor). |
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The number of USE flags would be quite impressive for such a small |
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package. |
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