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Hello, happy Gentoo users! I'm new on this distro, so I'm sorry if you |
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consider to be stupid what I gonna say. |
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Many of us prefer editors other than nano. Some of us believe in ideas of |
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freedom and choice which Gentoo provides us with. But... |
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There're ones who prefer primitive hardcoding over giving the enduser to |
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choose. There're defaults set by someone, that you should respect. |
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Because... Just because he wants so. Because you are nothing. Just another |
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ungrateful user... |
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An example? |
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The package SUDO. It is one of the most mandatory packages in distro. |
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But it totally ignores the enduser's favor in editing. |
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It just hardcodes what the ebuild's maintainer decided. Once and forever. |
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Do you want to remove nano from your system? DON'T DO THAT! Or you gonna |
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get some issues, you shouldn't get, if the things work as expected. |
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I just installed VIM with emerge, and removed nano because I considered |
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it to be absolutely unnecessary in my system. Why I need nano? I am a VIM |
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fan. And here the troubles begin... |
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Run "sudo visudo" and you get this: |
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~ $ sudo visudo |
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visudo: no editor found (editor path = /bin/nano) |
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~ $ env | grep -i edit |
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EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim |
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What a surprise! Hm... Possibly I did something wrong when setting my |
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system, that terminates me with this error?.. |
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So I was forced to spend my time analysing what is wrong with the package |
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and how to fix that. Because I remember it was working as expected in my |
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previous LFS (linuxfromscratch) system. My quests leaded me to the ebuild |
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of sudo. And I saw this nice shiny line there: |
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--with-editor=/bin/nano |
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Stop. I don't use nano. I even don't have it! But the ebuild doesn't check |
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if nano is installed. No care. It was just like said to me: |
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"Hey, you are just a stupid moron! Who removes default editor? He-he..." |
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I asked the ebuild maintainer to fix this behaviour. And what did he say? |
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"You should read manual page of sudo in order to make it work as expected. |
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To make it respect your preferences. And I don't care what editor you |
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prefer. Nano is Gentoo default editor!!! You understand? Stop boring me! |
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I will not change anything! Ha-ha..." |
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Actually it was said in other words but the idea is same. |
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Looks like the principle "it just works" is not for Gentoo users. |
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If you don't agree with ignoring of your preferences, |
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please vote for this bug: |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/votes.cgi?action=show_user&bug_id=286017#vote_286017 |
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P.S. Having defaults is not bad. But they should not override our |
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favourites. |
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Thank you. |
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Best regards, Spinal |
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