140428 Michael Mair-Keimberger wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:32:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I never use Nano -- Vim or Ed are available in a raw terminal -- >> & would like to unmerge it, but Portage tells me >> virtual/editor requires it & @system requires virtual/editor . > You can set your editor of choice with eselect: > eselect editor list > eselect editor set $(editor_of_choice)
I've done that, but it doesn't alter Portage behaviour. > Usually nano can be removed with emerge --depclean Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force & deprecated. I've checked 'man portage' & 'man emerge' & the virtual/editor ebuild. Acc to 'man portage' it sb possible to tell the virtual to accept Vim or Ed via /etc/make.profiles -> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/13.0 by adding a file 'virtuals' w a line 'virtual/editor<tab>app-editors/vim', but this has no effect. The ebuild has a long list of possible editors, incl Vim Ed Nano, but nothing singling out Nano, so Portage must be getting its instruction from somewhere else. Does anyone have better info ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
