Bug 180880 – Move PAGER and LESSOPEN from /etc/env.d/00basic to an env.d file installed by less

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2007-06-04 17:31:30 UTC]

Hi,

baselayout installs /etc/env.d/00basic, which contains
PAGER="/usr/bin/less"
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"

Could this please be moved to an env.d file installed by less? less is not a system package (virtual/pager is, less is merely the default provider for this virtual) and baselayout does not depend on less.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-06-11 05:19:19 UTC]

there is no $LESS here ... and PAGER is in the same category as EDITOR ...

so perhaps PAGER should be moved to /etc/rc.conf ...

[Comment 2 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2007-06-11 16:28:41 UTC]

Of course, that was a silly mistake.

Moving it to rc.conf (or anywhere else that's not in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK) would be fine with me, even if the default then remains less without a dependency on it.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2007-06-13 23:13:45 UTC]

ive moved $LESSOPEN to the less package since it's already installing an env.d file for $LESS

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2007-08-25 18:48:33 UTC]

EDITOR and PAGER have been punted completely from baselayout

users need to configure it themselves ... if they want a global default, they can add it to /etc/profile.d/

a new bug has been opened for eselect modules for PAGER/EDITOR maintenance