Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:19:44 -0400 Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Niccolò Belli
Il 06/10/2011 23:09, David Abbott ha scritto: To see your default editor and pager; eselect editor list eselect pager list It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager... laptop ~ # eselect editor list eselect pager list Available targets for the EDITOR variable: [1] /bin/nano

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote: Il 06/10/2011 23:09, David Abbott ha scritto: To see your default editor and pager; eselect editor list eselect pager list It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager... laptop ~ # eselect editor list eselect pager

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Niccolò Belli
Il 07/10/2011 13:25, Willie Wong ha scritto: Most likely you've never set them. Shouldn't it ship with a default setting? Anyway even after setting a default, portage still wants to remove both less and nano. I had to put them in the world set. Niccolò

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:30 +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote: Il 07/10/2011 13:25, Willie Wong ha scritto: Most likely you've never set them. Shouldn't it ship with a default setting? Anyway even after setting a default, portage still wants to remove both less and nano. I had to put them in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/07/2011 03:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Didn't we thrash this one to death already 2 months ago? Wasn't Zac's response that virtuals are inappropriate in the system set? I didn't pay too much attention back then, but for your second question, these are all @system:

[gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Niccolò Belli
Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. app-editors/nano selected: 2.2.5 protected: none omitted: none !!! 'sys-apps/less' (virtual/pager) is part

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Alex Schuster
Niccolò Belli writes: Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. This is somewhat surprising, but intended and correct, it has been discussed here some months ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 06.10.2011 22:47, schrieb Niccolò Belli: Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. [...] Yes, that is a known issue. Just add nano and less to @world with emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread David Abbott
2011/10/6 Niccolò Belli darkba...@linuxsystems.it: Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. To see your default editor and pager; eselect editor list eselect pager list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Dale
David Abbott wrote: 2011/10/6 Niccolò Bellidarkba...@linuxsystems.it: Here is after an emerge -av --depclean: !!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system. To see your default editor and pager; eselect editor list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Orlitzky
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