On Wednesday 30 May 2012 13:01:24 Michał Górny wrote:
> This issue was given my attention through bug 418217 [1]. Long story
> short -- there are applications which call pager implicitly. Those are
> git & systemd. They don't actually require any pager being installed;
> however, if $PAGER is set they use it.

then isn't it a bug they aren't depending on virtual/pager ?

> As the reporter shows, after unmerging virtual/pager and last pager
> provider, the system is left with an invalid $PAGER setting. Thanks to
> that, both systemd & git fail with errors.

imagine that.  i don't complain when i `emerge -C coreutils` and suddenly `ls` 
no longer works ...
-mike

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