Hello.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 7, 2007 3:56 PM, Stroller <<a href="mailto:stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk">stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On 7 Dec 2007, at 13:29, Alexander Skwar wrote:<br>> Emil Beinroth <<a href="mailto:emilbeinroth@gmx.net">emilbeinroth@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br>>><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">>> there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano <br>>> as the<br>>> default choice.<br>><br>> How does it do that? How do I make it select something else?<br><br></div>I think you simply emerge vi (or vim or emacs or joe or whatever) and<br>then portage will no longer try to emerge nano (or any other editor). </blockquote><div> </div></div>Yes, I know. That's one way. But why am I able to "preselect"<br>the virtual/mta by editing the virtuals file and why can't this same<br>thing be done for virtual/editor? Basically, I'd like to *preselect* <br>what should be taken as a virtual.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Alexander