On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:17:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Usually nano can be removed with emerge --depclean > > Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force & deprecated.
Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. Brute force, maybe, but it is the answer. > 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, Except that nano is first in the list and portage takes the first available dependency as satisfying the virtual. Unmerge nano and portage will look at the rest of the list, be satisfied with vim and not try to re-emerge nano. -- Neil Bothwick The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall.
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