On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:15 +0000, Tavis Ormandy wrote: > The only `hardcoded` editor is the fallback editor for > visudo
And this is the problem I'm talking about. I do not see any reasons to keep this not working fallback. There are parts of code that just do not work in Gentoo. > which can be set with the editor default in sudoers. That's good. But some packages (I'm talking about practically *all* crontab, vipw, vigr and may be other applications) do not have such configuration file to configure that default editor. And IMO configuration file should change *sane* defaults but I do not think nano is sane default ;) Thus I suggested either remove non working fallback in packages (patching sources) or fix unpredictable and non-working fallback by adding some sane default (that was /usr/bin/editor in my initial mail). In other cases current behavior is a bug (some part of program is not working as intended by upstream). And note suggested trivial fix as a side effect makes virtual/editor conform glep 37 (also good). Hope I've made points a bit clearer. Peter.
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