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On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:15:09 +0300, Arthur D. wrote: |
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> > A more sensible approach would be for the ebuild to check which ebuild |
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> > satisfies the virtual/editor dependency and set that. |
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> Not clever. What if there are several editors installed? |
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Choose the most appropriate from a defined list. |
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> And, yes, I prefer VIM. And I don't like when the package which |
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> vanilla defaults were always to be using vim as editor is overwritten |
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> without any notifications and causing the enduser to investigate |
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> how to fix that. |
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Would you have the same argument if the vanilla default was emacs and the |
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ebuild changed it to vim? All you're complaining about is that a distro |
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that expects users to configure everything for themselves is expecting |
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you to add one line to a config file. |
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This "problem" could also be fixed by USE flags. Instead of whining why |
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not submit a patch that has the ebuild respect the vanilla USE flag? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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