depclean trying to remove system files

[Twenynge]

I've been working on a fresh installation and am at the point where I'm adding the final few packages I want. After adding vim, conky, and a few other things I updated my entire system then ran

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emerge --ask --depclean

. For whatever reason, Portage is attempting to remove nano even though I have it set as my default editor via eselect. Is this normal behavior? Is it doing this because I installed vim which satisfied the virtual so nano is no longer needed but is still flagged to provide a warning if you try to delete it? I could just emerge it and put it in the world set, but I want to make sure I haven't done anything wrong to cause this issue. Thanks in advance.

[mv]

Your conjectures are completely correct.
eselect has nothing to do with portage - it just sets the EDITOR variable so that some tools will use it.
A quicker solution than reemerging (unless you have already removed nano) is

emerge --select -n nano

which will enter nano into your world file.

[John R. Graham]

Yes, it's normal. For more background, see [topic=883019]--depclean wants to remove nano![/topic] Moved to Duplicate Threads.

- John