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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:21:07
Message-Id: 4E8E61C0.1070009@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano by Dale
1 On 10/06/2011 10:06 PM, Dale wrote:
2 >
3 > One would think that if it is the selected and only one installed, it
4 > wouldn't try to remove it. Isn't this what virtuals are for? Portage
5 > needs one pager from the following list and as long as one is installed,
6 > portage is happy and doesn't try to remove it.
7 >
8 > I know, this has been discussed and the devs still let it do this. < sighs >
9 >
10
11 That's how it works with regards to virtuals. It will only remove 'less'
12 if you have some other pager installed.
13
14 It currently *will* remove 'less' while it's eselected as the pager.
15 There's an underwhelming bug for this:
16
17 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>