You appear to be demonstrating that you don't fully understand the
problem:
828 ~ $ grep nano /usr/portage/app-admin/sudo/sudo-1.7.2_p1.ebuild
# XXX: /bin/vi may not be available, make nano visudo's default.
--with-editor=/bin/nano \
How so? That config option for sudo sets the DEFAULT editor, what to use
if nothing is defined in the config file or environment variable. That's
what both my text and the portion of the ebuild that you have quoted
state. It in no way forces the use of nano in order to use visudo. If
that were the case, DEPENDS would specify nano instead of accepting
virtual/editor.
Agree. There's no need in making vim as depends. But in other hand in
vanilla sudo
package there's VI hardcoded by default. And MOST if not ALL users who
have VIM
installed on their shiny Gentoo systems expect that VIsudo will behave as
it did
for long tim ago. There are historical (or some other) reasons for making
VI default
editor for this utility. It's like they don't respect not only endusers
favours but
the developers' too, no?
WHY NOT CHECK if vim binary is in place and ONLY THEN (when it's obviously
absent)
hardcode the Gentoo Best Award of Choice Editor?
I repeat once more.
Every user who has VIM installed on theirs systems is forced to do extra
configuration, to make sudo work as expected, just because someone prefer
other editor and thinks that vanilla choice is bad. Isn't that just stupid?
--
Best regards, Spinal
