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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



  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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