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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:07:27
Message-Id: 4E8E5E9A.7030306@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano by David Abbott
1 David Abbott wrote:
2 > 2011/10/6 Niccolò Belli<darkbasic@××××××××××××.it>:
3 >> Here is after an emerge -av --depclean:
4 >>
5 >> !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile.
6 >>
7 >> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
8 >>
9 > To see your default editor and pager;
10 > eselect editor list&& eselect pager list
11 > Then to set;
12 > eselect editor set 1
13 > To add a package to your world set;
14 > emerge -n nano
15 > HTH
16 > David
17 >
18 >
19
20 One would think that if it is the selected and only one installed, it
21 wouldn't try to remove it. Isn't this what virtuals are for? Portage
22 needs one pager from the following list and as long as one is installed,
23 portage is happy and doesn't try to remove it.
24
25 I know, this has been discussed and the devs still let it do this. < sighs >
26
27 Dale
28
29 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>