On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 1 Oct 2009, at 21:28, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > On 10/1/2009 3:32 PM, forgottenwizard wrote: > >> However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the > >> EDITOR variable as was mentioned. This defaults to nano so it should > >> work fine in a default install, and would avoid issues like this > >> which > >> seems to be an arguement that the dev(s) are trying to force specific > >> programs on the users. > > > > I would be hesitant to use a user-specific variable like EDITOR to > > define the system-wide default on an ebuild. For example, what if > > my EDITOR was set to gvim or emacs when I installed sudo, then some > > other remote user tried to run visudo over ssh? > > I think it should get the $EDITOR variable set in rc.conf > > Stroller. >
it is set in /etv/env.d - why is that not enough?
