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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:57:07
Message-Id: 201106080154.52763.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean by Walter Dnes
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 01:08 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Walter Dnes
2 did opine thusly:
3
4 > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 05:55:38AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
5 >
6 > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
7 wrote:
8 > > > Latest portage-2.2.0_alpha38 has changed something with system set and
9 > > > depclean handling. It now shows this:
10 > > >
11 > > > !!! 'app-editors/nano' is part of your system profile.
12 > > > !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
13 > >
14 > > I saw the same thing here yesterday so I added nano & less to my world
15 > > file just so I could move on.
16 >
17 > Has anyone ever considered a "virtual/app-editor" ebuild, and letting
18 > vim/joe/nano/whatever satisfy it?
19
20 y'know, now that you mention it:
21
22 $ eix -e editor
23 [I] virtual/editor
24 Available versions: 0{tbz2}
25 Installed versions: 0{tbz2}(12:10:07 10/06/10)
26 Description: Virtual for editor
27
28 $ genlop -t editor
29 * virtual/editor
30
31 Mon Aug 4 02:31:59 2008 >>> virtual/editor-0
32 merge time: 3 seconds.
33
34
35 I think the answer is "Yes"
36
37 :-)
38
39 the virtual satisfies something like 27 different editors
40
41 --
42 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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