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 1QU6HM-0000QW-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:05:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F5AD1C0B4; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3FA1C0B4 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yib2 with SMTP id 2so8742yib.40 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:03:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jr6xvhZfqDbWMczMRBTap0uy0ALALMhVWBei0oSZYEI=; b=v8iF4judTawdvyQwjZgoPO5eVk6ADs7Z7FSFnQORTc3lXdu3NHQaY7Wb9quPw2qH3+ TMYYC2HcAlv7YifZ6oox/WNEmNqJ9IJHnc8DR2LwK41M6PuRLqKQQMdVM3oQnUuojIJi bbyU1+j8BD/SCSTzvP/sfRCJu56RYiK50ELFw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XtJkoHg2CAUSuOCJJDS8YyXuDEVUuXLUkeCjW5trD2Pm++LjIgF3oWK7OWv36R3kGn +P/lVvxlI3qLKiqXtwI2t5K2LJjzxguOm7U2J2M4pHB8RwDffSqhSlKXtpuJxXWfx9yC hj/XMw3Ssx3Zn53eTPt3cUxF83b1Ih4O7Pz98= Received: by 10.236.180.69 with SMTP id i45mr1444597yhm.362.1307491403465; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-122-125.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.122.125]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e24sm449561yhk.79.2011.06.07.17.03.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DEEBC49.6080004@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:03:21 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean References: <201106071110.25887.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20110607230830.GA5295@waltdnes.org> <201106080154.52763.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201106080154.52763.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1cfda44d36a13a0cbde3e5d53325e3fd Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:08 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Walter Dnes > did opine thusly: > > >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 05:55:38AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote >> >> >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Alan McKinnon >>> > wrote: > >>>> Latest portage-2.2.0_alpha38 has changed something with system set and >>>> depclean handling. It now shows this: >>>> >>>> !!! 'app-editors/nano' is part of your system profile. >>>> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. >>>> >>> I saw the same thing here yesterday so I added nano& less to my world >>> file just so I could move on. >>> >> Has anyone ever considered a "virtual/app-editor" ebuild, and letting >> vim/joe/nano/whatever satisfy it? >> > y'know, now that you mention it: > > $ eix -e editor > [I] virtual/editor > Available versions: 0{tbz2} > Installed versions: 0{tbz2}(12:10:07 10/06/10) > Description: Virtual for editor > > $ genlop -t editor > * virtual/editor > > Mon Aug 4 02:31:59 2008>>> virtual/editor-0 > merge time: 3 seconds. > > > I think the answer is "Yes" > > :-) > > the virtual satisfies something like 27 different editors > > Then why didn't they do it that way? Require a editor but let the user pick which one and it be part of the system set. Maybe I am missing something here. It wouldn't be the first time. ;-) Dale :-) :-)