On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> #370295 > > Zac responded (comment #21) to my post in that bug with quite a well-reasoned > rationale. It makes interesting reading.
It was a good response. One question left hanging for me goes like this: I understand nano is a choice. Removing an editor like nano is 99.99% safe. There's no way removing nano is going to cause a system to not boot or be unable to do updates, so I remove it understanding (now) about virtuals. On the other hand how does someone who's not educated in booting or the internals of portage know that removing less wouldn't cause a problem that stops a machine from booting or makes it impossible to do updates? Cheers, Mark
