Re: [gentoo-user] Am I wrong?..

[Mike Edenfield]

On 10/1/2009 3:32 PM, forgottenwizard wrote:

> However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the
> EDITOR variable as was mentioned. This defaults to nano so it should
> work fine in a default install, and would avoid issues like this which
> seems to be an arguement that the dev(s) are trying to force specific
> programs on the users.

I would be hesitant to use a user-specific variable like EDITOR to 
define the system-wide default on an ebuild.  For example, what if my 
EDITOR was set to gvim or emacs when I installed sudo, then some other 
remote user tried to run visudo over ssh?

--Mike