Re: [gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-31 Thread Sébastien Fabbro
Michał Górny wrote: > > There is a number of virtuals in Gentoo which switching active > implementation via eselect. However, most of the packages being > 'alternative providers' don't seem to care about eselect at all. Is > that the correct thing to do, or maybe should every package ensure > tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 30 May 2012 17:57:43 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/30/2012 05:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 May 2012 13:01:24 Michał Górny wrote: > >> This issue was given my attention through bug 418217 [1]. Long > >> story short -- there are applications which call pager > >> im

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 05/30/2012 05:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2012 13:01:24 Michał Górny wrote: >> This issue was given my attention through bug 418217 [1]. Long >> story short -- there are applications which call pager >> implicitly. Those are git & systemd. They don't actually require >> an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 30 May 2012 13:01:24 Michał Górny wrote: > This issue was given my attention through bug 418217 [1]. Long story > short -- there are applications which call pager implicitly. Those are > git & systemd. They don't actually require any pager being installed; > however, if $PAGER is set t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > There is a number of virtuals in Gentoo which switching active > implementation via eselect. However, most of the packages being > 'alternative providers' don't seem to care about eselect at all. Is > that the correct thing to do, or maybe should ev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/05/12 01:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > ... In other words, removing a pager leaves system in a broken > state. AFAICS, 'eselect pager' doesn't even support a system > without pager -- it just fails miserably. So the user is either > forced to in

[gentoo-dev] Should packages auto-eselect alternative implementation on removal?

2012-05-30 Thread Michał Górny
Hello, There is a number of virtuals in Gentoo which switching active implementation via eselect. However, most of the packages being 'alternative providers' don't seem to care about eselect at all. Is that the correct thing to do, or maybe should every package ensure that after its removal anothe