Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-05-15 Thread Philip Webb
140429 Philip Webb wrote: 140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: PW The ebuild has a long list of possible editors, incl Vim Ed Nano, but nothing singling out Nano. NB Except that nano is first in the list and portage takes the first available dependency as satisfying the virtual. PW Doesn't Portage check

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:17:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force deprecated. Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. root:565 ~ emerge -C nano * This action can remove important packages! In order to be

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:16:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:17:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force deprecated. Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. root:565 ~ emerge -C nano * This action can remove

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Philip Webb
140429 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:16:03 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: PW Yes, I can do 'emerge -C nano', but that is brute force deprecated. NB Deprecated? Really? I must have missed that. PW * This action can remove important packages! * In order to be safer, use `emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 29 Apr 2014 08:19:15 Philip Webb wrote: I sometimes have the feeling Portage's behaviour is not fully thought out often that Portage advisory messages are written by Martians (grin). Regular readers* will know that I have my problems with portage from time to time, but accusing it

[gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
I never use Nano -- Vim or Ed are available in a raw terminal -- would like to unmerge it, but Portage tells me that virtual/editor requires it that @system requires virtual/editor . How can I tell Portage that Vim or Ed satisfy virtual/editor ? --

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/28/2014 07:32 AM, 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 that virtual/editor requires it that @system requires virtual/editor . How can I tell Portage that Vim or Ed satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Mick
On Monday 28 Apr 2014 15:32:22 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 that virtual/editor requires it that @system requires virtual/editor . How can I tell Portage that Vim or Ed satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Michael Mair-Keimberger
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 that virtual/editor requires it that @system requires virtual/editor . How can I tell Portage that Vim or Ed

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Dale
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 that virtual/editor requires it that @system requires virtual/editor . How can I tell Portage that Vim or Ed satisfy virtual/editor ? As Mick said, it

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual problem : how can I unmerge Nano ?

2014-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
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