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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:05:48
Message-Id: 4DEEBC49.6080004@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:08 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Walter Dnes
3 > did opine thusly:
4 >
5 >
6 >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 05:55:38AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
10 >>>
11 > wrote:
12 >
13 >>>> Latest portage-2.2.0_alpha38 has changed something with system set and
14 >>>> depclean handling. It now shows this:
15 >>>>
16 >>>> !!! 'app-editors/nano' is part of your system profile.
17 >>>> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
18 >>>>
19 >>> I saw the same thing here yesterday so I added nano& less to my world
20 >>> file just so I could move on.
21 >>>
22 >> Has anyone ever considered a "virtual/app-editor" ebuild, and letting
23 >> vim/joe/nano/whatever satisfy it?
24 >>
25 > y'know, now that you mention it:
26 >
27 > $ eix -e editor
28 > [I] virtual/editor
29 > Available versions: 0{tbz2}
30 > Installed versions: 0{tbz2}(12:10:07 10/06/10)
31 > Description: Virtual for editor
32 >
33 > $ genlop -t editor
34 > * virtual/editor
35 >
36 > Mon Aug 4 02:31:59 2008>>> virtual/editor-0
37 > merge time: 3 seconds.
38 >
39 >
40 > I think the answer is "Yes"
41 >
42 > :-)
43 >
44 > the virtual satisfies something like 27 different editors
45 >
46 >
47
48 Then why didn't they do it that way? Require a editor but let the user
49 pick which one and it be part of the system set. Maybe I am missing
50 something here. It wouldn't be the first time. ;-)
51
52 Dale
53
54 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>