On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:07:20AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:34:25 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: > > > So instead it should set a non-existant editor to the configured > > default? > > Nano is not non-existent by default. >
It isn't always on the users sytem. Providing a non-existent default seems quite broken to me. > > Another variable in make.conf may be a reasonable fix for this though > > I'm sure someone will bitch about having to set $EDITOR twice on their > > system. > > A more sensible approach would be for the ebuild to check which ebuild > satisfies the virtual/editor dependency and set that. If the OP really > cared about this "problem" he'd investigate providing such solutions > instead of ranting about how Gentoo does not use his editor of choice by > default. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > .sig a .sog of sixpence. The problem there would be if multiple editors provide virtual/editor (such as on my system, which has both vim and ed installed). The ebuild trying to automagically select what should be the default editor is a bad idea, if not just horrible.
