Apparently, though unproven, at 02:03 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Dale did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:08 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Walter > > Dnes > > > > did opine thusly: > >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 05:55:38AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > >> > >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > >>>> Latest portage-2.2.0_alpha38 has changed something with system set and > >>>> depclean handling. It now shows this: > >>>> > >>>> !!! 'app-editors/nano' is part of your system profile. > >>>> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. > >>> > >>> I saw the same thing here yesterday so I added nano& less to my world > >>> file just so I could move on. > >>> > >> Has anyone ever considered a "virtual/app-editor" ebuild, and letting > >> > >> vim/joe/nano/whatever satisfy it? > > > > y'know, now that you mention it: > > > > $ eix -e editor > > [I] virtual/editor > > > > Available versions: 0{tbz2} > > Installed versions: 0{tbz2}(12:10:07 10/06/10) > > Description: Virtual for editor > > > > $ genlop -t editor > > > > * virtual/editor > > > > Mon Aug 4 02:31:59 2008>>> virtual/editor-0 > > > > merge time: 3 seconds. > > > > I think the answer is "Yes" > > > > :-) > > > > the virtual satisfies something like 27 different editors > > Then why didn't they do it that way? Require a editor but let the user > pick which one and it be part of the system set. Maybe I am missing > something here. It wouldn't be the first time. ;-) Yes, you are missing something - what you say is exactly how they now do it. Previously nano was explicitly in system - set by profile. Now it's the virtual. iow, pick the one you want. This change could only happen now as to do it Zac needed GLEP 37 satisfied properly -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com