On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 03:52:24 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > Nano is not non-existent by default.
> It isn't always on the users sytem. Providing a non-existent default > seems quite broken to me. That's true of every editor, so you have to choose the one that is most likely to be there, the one that is installed for the stage tarballs and is there unless the user has taken specific steps to remove it. > > A more sensible approach would be for the ebuild to check which ebuild > > satisfies the virtual/editor dependency and set that. If the OP really > > cared about this "problem" he'd investigate providing such solutions > > instead of ranting about how Gentoo does not use his editor of choice > > by default. > The problem there would be if multiple editors provide virtual/editor > (such as on my system, which has both vim and ed installed). The ebuild > trying to automagically select what should be the default editor is a > bad idea, if not just horrible. You can't have it both ways. You want the program to default to an editor that is guaranteed to be there, at least at installation time, yet the only one that satisfies that is virtual/editor. It's only a default, it only has to be available the first time you run the program, whether it's your favourite editor or not. If you only want to use default configurations without making any changes to suit yourself, I suggest you may be better served by a distro that is a little browner. -- Neil Bothwick Gravity isn't easy, but it's the law.
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