050904 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says >> virtual/editor app-editors/nano >> there's no mention of Joe. > In the ebuild it specifies > PROVIDE="virtual/editor" > the virtual/editor thing in the profiles just specifies > that the default install will use app-editors/nano > to satisfy the virtual/editor requirement in system. > If you have ANYTHING at all that provides virtual/editor, > it will satisfy the system. But at the same time, > if you want to unmerge anything that provides virtual/editor, > the warning will come up.
Thanx a lot for your very clear & detailed explanation [snipped]: I get the same results from your CLI commands as you do; I tried 'emerge -Cp vim' & got the same warning as for Joe. The 'PROVIDE' line in ebuilds is new to me: perhaps its purpose & effects should be better documented. I would suggest to the devs -- I have a parallel query re Devfsd -- that the big red warning is something of a big red herring & that Portage needs to be taught either to see what else is installed or to make a less dramatic intervention. I am as always very grateful to the devs for their volunteer efforts & today's queries are partly for my own education & partly to help make Portage a bit more sensitive. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
