On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:01 AM Simo Sorce <s...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 15:41 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:32 PM Tom Hughes via devel
> > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > What exactly does "change the default on upgrade" actually mean
> > > here? Making nano-default-editor a dependency of something else
> > > that people are likely to have installed? Or adding something to
> > > some sort of post install script for system-upgrade that installs
> > > that package?
> >
> > From the BZ Miro linked to in the start of this thread:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896707#c12
> > > dnf system-upgrade also upgrades groups, so nano-default-editor gets 
> > > installed on system upgrades
> > > If I accept our argument then how do I choose not to accept your
> > > opinion and "explicitly override" this choice?
> >
> > Also from that bug:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896707#c13
> > > "dnf remove nano-default-editor". Alternatively, you can set "export 
> > > EDITOR=vim" in your ~/.bash_profile
>
>
> Shouldn't we just set export EDITOR=nano in the default profile and leave 
> existing users alone?
>
> I cannot see how change a *user default* vs a system default, can *ever* be 
> acceptable.
>

The intent is to make it the system-wide default when the user has no
setting. If the user has a setting in their profile, then that is
respected, regardless of whether the package is installed or not.



-- 
真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Reply via email to