Bug 523066 – app-editors/nano would be removed from a freshly installed system by "emerge --depclean"

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 375115
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2014-09-17 20:12:42 UTC]

At 2 different fresh installed systems (x86 and amd64) I experienced, that nano would be removed :


# emerge --depclean --ask --quiet


!!! 'app-editors/nano' (virtual/editor) is part of your system profile.
!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.

app-editors/nano: 2.3.2 none none
sys-kernel/vanilla-sources: 3.16.3 none 3.16.2

All selected packages: app-editors/nano-2.3.2 sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-3.16.3
Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] No

Quitting.

Packages installed:   244
Packages in world:    38
Packages in system:   44
Required packages:    242
Number to remove:     2





Is nano by accident not in the world file (2 different minimal ISO images at different days used !) ?

[Comment 1 Ben Kohler 2014-09-17 20:16:22 UTC]

It's not supposed to be in @world, it's required by virtual/editor in @system.  Did you install another editor which satisfies virtual/editor? You can check with "portageq expand_virtual / virtual/editor"

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2014-09-17 20:28:37 UTC]

yep, at the amd64 I get :

$ portageq expand_virtual / virtual/editor
app-editors/nano


and yes, first thing is often to install vim for me.

[Comment 3 Ben Kohler 2014-09-17 20:34:13 UTC]

If you have vim, then you shouldn't care if nano is removed, presumably. I think this is either "not a bug" or it's a dupe of bug #375115

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-09-17 23:47:27 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 375115 ***