On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'd put money on it being considered part of system > > because it provides virtual/editor, which is part of system. > > In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says > > virtual/editor app-editors/nano > > there's no mention of Joe. >
In the ebuild it specifies PROVIDE="virtual/editor" the virtual/editor thing in the profiles just specifies that the default install will use app-editors/nano to satisfy the virtual/editor requirement in system. If you have ANYTHING at all that provides virtual/editor, it will satisfy the system. But at the same time, if you want to unmerge anything that provides virtual/editor, the warning will come up. For example, currently, on my desktop, [02:21 PM]wwong ~ $ emerge search nano Searching... [ Results for search key : nano ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * app-editors/nano Latest version available: 1.3.7 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 985 kB Homepage: http://www.nano-editor.org/ Description: GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality License: GPL-2 [02:22 PM]wwong ~ $ cat /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals | grep editor virtual/editor app-editors/nano virtual/emacs app-editors/emacs virtual/xemacs app-editors/xemacs [02:19 PM]wwong proto-gen $ emerge --pretend virtual/editor These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-editors/gvim-6.3.084 So... although nano is the "default editor" it is not installed on my system. And I have at least gvim to satisfy the virtual/editor requirements in system (though I usually use vim, which also satisfies the requirement). In fact, if you grep "virtual/editor" /usr/portage/app-editors/*/*ebuild you'd see that easyedit, elvis, emacs, gvim, jed, joe, nano, ne, nvi, teco, vile, vim, xemacs all provide that function. So in short, just go ahead and unmerge Joe if you aren't going to use it. W -- "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." - This line perhaps best sums up the whole book. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 23 days, 21:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list