From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RC4uA-0005oH-Bu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:31:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3AD421C06F; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83C221C06F for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eye3 with SMTP id 3so1141171eye.40 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y0VJQVPkaXO4iiQPkWb6FY4rjz0NBkSfOZ8KMGpgpks=; b=cbMNy1RWfbH/nN3ED3wiPPUnfe1Zj1M7KN/3FHPPeZYMSK3QvyW7fdg7b339slcJ4b /rTcFUum5wGzT9FIZygUN0uA3II59n4oPl4y4YSOTw9vlTXNu1PEggIehjUaEGCkJ7qA JywKSh0sT2idc4KjGABqLmJhCiy8aFnssLBcw= Received: by 10.14.35.98 with SMTP id t74mr157077eea.183.1317972631975; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.38]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q50sm12772311eef.9.2011.10.07.00.30.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:30:26 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano Message-ID: <20111007093026.47851bf1@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8E61C0.1070009@orlitzky.com> References: <4E8E13FA.40308@linuxsystems.it> <4E8E5E9A.7030306@gmail.com> <4E8E61C0.1070009@orlitzky.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8fe1c93e46b53b143acc87252a4ef164 On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:19:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/06/2011 10:06 PM, Dale wrote: > > > > One would think that if it is the selected and only one installed, > > it wouldn't try to remove it. Isn't this what virtuals are for? > > Portage needs one pager from the following list and as long as one > > is installed, portage is happy and doesn't try to remove it. > > > > I know, this has been discussed and the devs still let it do this. > > < sighs > > > > > That's how it works with regards to virtuals. It will only remove > 'less' if you have some other pager installed. > > It currently *will* remove 'less' while it's eselected as the pager. > There's an underwhelming bug for this: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611 > Didn't we thrash this one to death already 2 months ago? Wasn't Zac's response that virtuals are inappropriate in the system set? -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com