On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:15:23PM -0500, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> On Monday 13 February 2006 20:07, Forrest Voight wrote:
> > How is that wrong? If it isn't, eselect would be a great way to switch
> > EDITOR and XSESSION.
> 
> jesus, talk about over engineering
> 
> using eselect to manage some default variables instead of simply editing your 
> ~/.bashrc file is like using a backhoe to dig a hole for a bonsai tree ... 
> sure it'll work, but who the hell wants a goddamn bonsai tree
> -mike

I have 2 :)

But on topic, I totally agree with Mike. OK, Possibly EDITOR and
XSESSION are better suited to somewhere else other than rc, but atm that
place doesn't exist, and imo doesn't warrant creation.

/etc/env.d/ (when it comes to setting a default editor) just seems very odd to 
me. It's not easily managed from a package perspective. It can easily just 
throw some random behaviour.

Of course, user specific EDITOR etc, is much better set in the
appropriate ~/dotfiles. System wide, all we need is a workable default.

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