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 the world set.
I'll chime in. I know this has been discussed so many times... but it seems the discussion recurs. You *can* get away with not putting virtuals in your world file, even with the new portage behavior. The trick is to not have any other package satisfy the virtual. For example, I use most as my pager and gvim as my editor. I uninstalled nano because I can't stand it and never use it. I also uninstalled less because I use most. My world file has neither most nor gvim in it, but because nothing else satisfies the dependencies for virtual/pager and virtual/editor then they don't get depclean'ed. Of course this won't work for everyone. If you have to have 2 pagers installed, for example. Where I think some people will come into a problem is with sys-apps/util-linux[ncurses]. This satisfies the virtual/pager dep so it may want to clean sys-apps/more. I don't have the "ncurses" flag set for util-linux, so I don't have that issue. Anyway a lot of people don't like the "new" behavior (which isn't really new anymore). I can't say I'm enthused about the change, but if you think about (for a while) it makes sense, and it's not like it's going to kill you to put nano/more/whatever in your world file. -a
