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On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:45:40PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 21:32:56 schrieb forgottenwizard: |
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> > However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the |
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> > EDITOR variable as was mentioned. |
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> Because that's the worst thing to do. An ebuild's behaviour should not depend |
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> on env variables (like it's still the case for this stupid grub ebuild), |
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> because the user never get's to see this. There are other possibilities, i.e. |
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> something like LINGUAS or VIDEO_CARDS, which are immediately visible. |
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> Bye... |
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> Dirk |
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So instead it should set a non-existant editor to the configured |
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default? |
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Another variable in make.conf may be a reasonable fix for this though |
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I'm sure someone will bitch about having to set $EDITOR twice on their |
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system. |