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On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 1 Oct 2009, at 21:28, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> > On 10/1/2009 3:32 PM, forgottenwizard wrote: |
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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. This defaults to nano so it should |
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> >> work fine in a default install, and would avoid issues like this |
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> >> which |
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> >> seems to be an arguement that the dev(s) are trying to force specific |
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> >> programs on the users. |
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> > I would be hesitant to use a user-specific variable like EDITOR to |
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> > define the system-wide default on an ebuild. For example, what if |
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> > my EDITOR was set to gvim or emacs when I installed sudo, then some |
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> > other remote user tried to run visudo over ssh? |
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> I think it should get the $EDITOR variable set in rc.conf |
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> Stroller. |
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it is set in /etv/env.d - why is that not enough? |
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