On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 15:41 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 3:32 PM Tom Hughes via devel > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What exactly does "change the default on upgrade" actually mean > > here? Making nano-default-editor a dependency of something else > > that people are likely to have installed? Or adding something to > > some sort of post install script for system-upgrade that installs > > that package? > > From the BZ Miro linked to in the start of this thread: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896707#c12 > > dnf system-upgrade also upgrades groups, so nano-default-editor gets installed on system upgrades > > If I accept our argument then how do I choose not to accept your > > opinion and "explicitly override" this choice? > > Also from that bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896707#c13 > > "dnf remove nano-default-editor". Alternatively, you can set "export EDITOR=vim" in your ~/.bash_profile Shouldn't we just set export EDITOR=nano in the default profile and leave existing users alone? I cannot see how change a *user default* vs a system default, can *ever* be acceptable. Simo. -- Simo Sorce RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
