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 1RC03f-0007er-5D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:21:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95D8521C1E8; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 02:20:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AD021C027 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 02:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.14] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1F3B937ADA for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:20:00 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1317954001; bh=FZnvRu/uPW1hxbDJ5djNGoJCTu4JN7cebC93oTYUOYk=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=VXAx0w5aYO17lNQRFy2c7iF1wrsUN7aaOK4yvA0di0PL3qRZwJvHCGt6/pPgVJSp+ uCsXnE24G4I4EAk8s0H3GohPfvti5KXAqeK4pJHD4s6sBE101Iw3jYD7UnRKup/Hbc qvdNH0sYXUTIez3pUKa3VOW4ubQ4Nt7p+5A7Tmus= Message-ID: <4E8E61C0.1070009@orlitzky.com> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:19:44 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110923 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 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 wants to remove less and nano References: <4E8E13FA.40308@linuxsystems.it> <4E8E5E9A.7030306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8E5E9A.7030306@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 207657f07eec64d46165ca4d1dcb41dc 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