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From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com>
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:26:49 +0900
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] nano removed from system?
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On Monday 08 September 2003 10:27, Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:08:23 +0900
>
> Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com> wrote:
> > However, checking /etc/make.profile/packages, I find that nano has in
> > fact been removed. In  fact, there isn't any editor listed as part of
> > the base system. Is this  correct?
>
> Nope. thats incorrect. :
> *virtual/editor
> is listed in packages, which will be satisfied by any editor providing
> just that. "editor"
>
> and the virtuals file gives:
> virtual/editor                  app-editors/nano
> that nano is the default editor if no other is installed.

Well, I've confirmed that this is the case on my system. However...

As I said in my other post, app-editors/xemacs is installed due to something 
depending on it. It seems that because xemacs is installed and necessary and 
nano is installed but not in the world file, depclean wants to get rid of 
nano. This seems like normal correct behaviour to me.

What I was wondering about was whether nano should be listed in the world file 
on a fresh installation. All the other virtuals that get satisfied during 
installation are installed manually, no? Perhaps an editor should be 
installed manually as well... BTW this not a vi vs. nano type question ;-)

Regards,
Jason

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