On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:08:08AM +0200, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: > Am 02.10.2009 10:52, schrieb forgottenwizard: > > It isn't always on the users sytem. Providing a non-existent default > > seems quite broken to me. > > By DEFAULT it is on EVERY Gentoo-system. > If you CHOOSE to remove the default then you have to be prepared that > something may be broken after that. > > You could never be certain that anything set as default is existent on > the system. Even if a distro would remove the possibility to uninstall > the default with the help of the package manager so is there always rm > > So every default could be a non-existent default. >
So then I should keep everything installed on my system just in case it might break a package in the future? There have been ways mentioned that this can be solved. If nothing else there should be a warning (and possibly a dependency) that nano IS the default editor for sudo, whether you like it or not.
