Bug 3464

Summary:	app-editors/pico removal request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maik Schreiber <blizzy-keyword-gentoo_bugs2.a8a736>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo TreeCleaner Project <treecleaner>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	emacs, jkt, net-mail+disabled, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	1.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	fake ebuild for pico updated ebuild

Description Maik Schreiber 2002-06-06 17:38:21 UTC

This is a fake ebuild for Pico that mentions the following when the user tries
to emerge it:

 * There is no real Pico here.
 * 
 * Pico is part of net-mail/pine. Try "emerge app-editors/nano"
 * for a good Pico clone (it should be installed by default).
 * 
 * If you really want to use the original Pico, you may want
 * to try "emerge net-mail/pine" instead.

Comment 1 Maik Schreiber 2002-06-06 17:39:08 UTC

Created attachment 1376 [details]
fake ebuild for pico

Comment 2 Maik Schreiber 2002-06-06 17:43:09 UTC

Created attachment 1377 [details]
updated ebuild

I used the wrong ebuild function, sorry. pkg_setup() should be more suitable.

Comment 3 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-09 20:25:11 UTC

Committed.

Good idea.

Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 10:49:50 UTC

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 10:56:27 UTC

We stumbled over this ebuild when converting virtual/editor to a new-style virtual.

IHMO it is pointless to have an ebuild that just will fail. We should either put "|| ( app-editors/nano mail-client/pine )" in RDEPEND or remove the "package".

Reassigning to treecleaners, CCing maintainers of nano and pine.

Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 14:05:32 UTC

having a fake ebuild that redirects is just as worthless

either add one that does `die` so people know to do `emerge -C pico` or simply p.mask and delete it

Comment 7 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 17:12:08 UTC

p.masked for removal

Comment 8 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 18:38:13 UTC

Considering that having that fake ebuild in the tree has exactly zero maintenance overhead and that it helped at least one user (me) when installing, I'd go for keeping it. vapier's die variant sounds good to me.

(I'd volunteer to maintain it, but I'm not an ebuild dev and don't have access to the gentoo-x86 tree. Feel free to add me to the metadata and I'll find someone to proxy it for me.)

Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 19:09:55 UTC

Uh; dummy junk that only produces a die instead of installing something is a QA violation. Or shall we also add one for app-editor/vi which dies with 'There is no vi, emerge vim'? 

(NB, app-editors/vi actually *used* to have a valid ebuild, unlike pico).

Comment 10 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 19:17:14 UTC

This is clearly not a matter of more or less maintenance work.

It may rather annoy users if their over-night emerge aborts because of this. And obviously we cannot have an extra ebuild for each binary in the system, so why should pine/pico be an exception?

(O.K., there's at least one more example in the tree: mail-client/sylpheed-claws-2.6.1. Are mail clients and their editors special?)

Comment 11 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-10-10 19:24:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #10)
> (O.K., there's at least one more example in the tree:
> mail-client/sylpheed-claws-2.6.1. Are mail clients and their editors special?)

Bug 195421 now.

Comment 12 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-05 15:05:05 UTC

dead.