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

[forgottenwizard]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:09:23PM +0200, Jes??s Guerrero wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 04:54:42 -0500, forgottenwizard
> <phrexianreaper@××××××××.com> wrote:
> > How about a custom_editor flag, as you suggested, then an EDITOR
> > variable in make.conf? Thats the only way I could see being able to
> > solve this problem without invariably screwing someone. This would
> > provide a fairly sane default while giving the user the choice to use
> > something else.
>
> That would be the only way that it would make sense to me. Just like we
> have VIDEO_CARDS, some GENTOO_EDITOR variable would be nice for this. But
> ebuilds and eclasses would need to be aware of this to push the correct
> dependencies. It's not that trivial to addapt portage to a new portage
> variable. The USE flag idea is non-viable and doesn't make sense.
>
> It really isn't a big deal to configure yourself anyways. So unless some
> developer is interested in this, I doubt they are going to do the job
> unless some pristine and already working patch is sent to them, and someone
> is willing to work on a collaborative way, and not just throwing
> <the-editor-I-preffer> blindingly in the sudo ebuild.
>
> --
> Jes??s Guerrero
>

Set an EDITOR var in make.conf, then set a USE-flag for sudo to honor
this setting. If you set EDITOR to a valid atom (app-admin/vim, for
example), then you may be able to use that as a direct dependency, or
have the ebuild spit out a warning that $EDITOR isn't installed if that
is the case.

I'm not suggesting a USE-flag for everything, but more as a simple
switch that tells the ebuild to use the users settings instead of the
distro default.