Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Mark Knecht did opine thusly:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: <SNIP> > > >> #370295 > > > > Zac responded (comment #21) to my post in that bug with quite a > > well-reasoned rationale. It makes interesting reading. > > It was a good response. > > One question left hanging for me goes like this: > > I understand nano is a choice. Removing an editor like nano is 99.99% > safe. There's no way removing nano is going to cause a system to not > boot or be unable to do updates, so I remove it understanding (now) > about virtuals. On the other hand how does someone who's not educated > in booting or the internals of portage know that removing less > wouldn't cause a problem that stops a machine from booting or makes it > impossible to do updates? There is always an expectation of the minimum understanding needed to be able to use a technical product at all. The use of less and what to do if you don't have it falls fair and square into the "you really should already know that to use Gentoo" category. This isn't elitist, it's a technical fact. You have to set the bar somewhere and there's nothing wrong with that. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
