Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2007 10:49:42 Alexander Skwar wrote: >> 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: > [SNIP] >> 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). > > profile/virtuals is for old style virtuals only. editor was converted to a > new style virtual. New style virtuals are just ebuilds was an any-of > runtime dependency on all providers. On initial install portage will > choose the first visible provider that's listed in the ebuild. So either > put it in an overlay or just install the provider you want and let that > satisfy it...
Thx. Understood as well. So the expectation should be, that it's not going to be possible to preselect an mta the way I've shown, as soon as virtual/mta is converted to a new style virtual. Is that right? Is there work going on to change all the old style virtuals to new style ones? I don't know, but from a user perspective, these new style virtuals offer less flexibility. I've read the GLEP, but don't quite understand why something with lesser flexibility has been introduced. I understood, that old style virtuals might have had some performance problems for portage. Well. I guess there's nothing that can be done about it. Thanks, Alexander -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
