Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system

[Alin Nastac]

Philip Webb wrote:

>Ed is there because it's needed for Sed, which is useful for sysadmin;
>Bc has a similar usefulness.  all at basic console level.
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sed does not depend on ed, nor does the ed depend on sed.
sed should remain in system since tons of ebuild heavily depends on it.

when was the last time you used ed? it is a completely useless editor,
peeps use vim instead.
anyway, who says you cannot install ed if you want it so bad?