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140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:17:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force & deprecated. |
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> Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. |
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root:565 ~> emerge -C nano |
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* This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use |
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* `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before |
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* removing packages. |
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!!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. |
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!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. |
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>>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting... |
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>>> (Control-C to abort)... |
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Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9^C |
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Exiting on signal 2 |
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root:566 ~> emerge -pv --depclean nano |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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app-editors/nano-2.3.2 pulled in by: |
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virtual/editor-0 requires app-editors/nano |
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I'ld say that means 'deprecated' as much as anything does, |
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ie "in order to be safer" do it in a different but recommended way. |
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> Brute force, maybe, but it is the answer. |
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>> The ebuild has a long list of possible editors, |
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>> incl Vim Ed Nano, but nothing singling out Nano, |
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> Except that nano is first in the list and portage takes |
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> the first available dependency as satisfying the virtual. |
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Doesn't Portage check whether any of the others are installed ?! |
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> Unmerge nano and portage will look at the rest of the list, |
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> be satisfied with vim and not try to re-emerge nano. |
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The output above mentions "your system profile". |
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My @system contains virtual/editor , but not app-editors/nano . |
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I'ld call this a bug in Portage. |
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Any other comments before I "damage my system" (output above) ? |
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