From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:19:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8E61C0.1070009@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8E5E9A.7030306@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 20:47 [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano Niccolò Belli
2011-10-06 21:02 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-06 21:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-06 21:31 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-06 21:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2011-10-06 21:09 ` David Abbott
2011-10-07 2:06 ` Dale
2011-10-07 2:19 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2011-10-07 7:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-07 14:03 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07 9:15 ` Niccolò Belli
2011-10-07 11:25 ` Willie Wong
2011-10-07 11:30 ` Niccolò Belli
2011-10-07 12:22 ` Albert W. Hopkins
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