On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:45:40PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 21:32:56 schrieb forgottenwizard: > > > However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the > > EDITOR variable as was mentioned. > > Because that's the worst thing to do. An ebuild's behaviour should not depend > on env variables (like it's still the case for this stupid grub ebuild), > because the user never get's to see this. There are other possibilities, i.e. > something like LINGUAS or VIDEO_CARDS, which are immediately visible. > > Bye... > > Dirk >
So instead it should set a non-existant editor to the configured default? Another variable in make.conf may be a reasonable fix for this though I'm sure someone will bitch about having to set $EDITOR twice on their system.
