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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano
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David Abbott wrote:
> 2011/10/6 Niccol=C3=B2 Belli<darkbasic@linuxsystems.it>:
>> Here is after an emerge -av --depclean:
>>
>> !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile=
.
>>
>> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
>>
> To see your default editor and pager;
> eselect editor list&&  eselect pager list
> Then to set;
> eselect editor set 1
> To add a package to your world set;
> emerge -n nano
> HTH
> David
>
>

One would think that if it is the selected and only one installed, it=20
wouldn't try to remove it.  Isn't this what virtuals are for?  Portage=20
needs one pager from the following list and as long as one is installed,=20
portage is happy and doesn't try to remove it.

I know, this has been discussed and the devs still let it do this. < sigh=
s >

Dale

:-)  :-)