Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:29:54PM +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Emil Beinroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the >> > default choice. >> >> How does it do that? > > It's done by using the RDEPEND variable inside the virtual/editor > ebuild. > > RDEPEND="|| ( app-editors/nano > app-editors/dav > ..." > > That says that the package needs any of the packages in parentheses to > run. If none of them are installed, the first one in the list is > selected to be installed. (AFAIK)
Thx. Understood. [...] >> How do I make it select something else? > > I would say you don't. Just emerge the package you want (as you already > mentioned). Okay. And why am I able to preselect the mta the way I demonstrated? Alexander -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
