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On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:39:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> What I didn't like about this issue popping up yesterday is that it |
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> altered the idea that average users never touch anything in @system. |
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> Iin fact, TTBOMK I've never in 11 or 12 years of running Gentoo ever |
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> done an emerge -C on a @system package until this morning when I |
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> removed nano. |
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That's the point though, nano is not a system package, it is not needed |
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for Gentoo to be usable. You need an editor, but it does not have to be |
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nano, that is simply the default if the user makes no other choice. |
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Forcing nano into @system goes against the whole idea of using virtuals |
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to specify required functionality, rather than requiring a specific |
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program. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? |
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