Hello.
I installed stage-3 2007.0 and am now trying to configure
it to my liking. For example, I dislike nano and would like
to use vim instead. vim (among other editors) provides
virtual/editor. So I thought, that I could add
virtual/editor app-editors/vim
to /etc/portage/profile/virtuals. BUT:
winnb000488 portage # cat /etc/portage/profile/virtuals
virtual/editor app-editors/vim
winnb000488 portage # emerge -vpt virtual/editor
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] virtual/editor-0 0 kB
[ebuild N ] app-editors/nano-2.0.6 USE="-debug -justify -minimal ncurses
nls -slang spell unicode" 1,285 kB
Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,285 kB
Why's that? Why is nano being installed to satisfy the
virtual/editor need?
When I add
virtual/mta mail-mta/esmtp
to the virtuals file and try to emerge virtual/mta, esmtp
should be installed:
winnb000488 portage # echo virtual/mta mail-mta/esmtp >> profile/virtuals
winnb000488 portage # emerge -vpt virtual/mta
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] mail-mta/esmtp-0.5.0-r1 USE="-mailwrapper" 123 kB
[ebuild N ] net-libs/libesmtp-1.0.4 USE="-debug ssl" 344 kB
Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 467 kB
Without that line in the virtuals file, ssmtp is going to be
installed:
winnb000488 portage # grep -v esmtp profile/virtuals > /tmp/dummy ; cat
/tmp/dummy > profile/virtuals ; rm /tmp/dummy
winnb000488 portage # cat profile/virtuals
virtual/editor app-editors/vim
winnb000488 portage # emerge -vpt virtual/mta
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="-ipv6 -mailwrapper -md5sum ssl" 53
kB
[ebuild N ] net-mail/mailbase-1 USE="pam" 0 kB
Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 53 kB
So, what am I doing wrong with regards to virtual/editor? I know
that I could just install app-editors/vim and be done, but I'd
like to know why emerge virtual/editor doesn't work the way I expect
it to work (or why my expectation is wrong).
Alexander
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