On 10/06/2011 10:06 PM, Dale wrote: > > One would think that if it is the selected and only one installed, it > wouldn't try to remove it. Isn't this what virtuals are for? Portage > needs one pager from the following list and as long as one is installed, > portage is happy and doesn't try to remove it. > > I know, this has been discussed and the devs still let it do this. < sighs > >
That's how it works with regards to virtuals. It will only remove 'less' if you have some other pager installed. It currently *will* remove 'less' while it's eselected as the pager. There's an underwhelming bug for this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367611
