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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:54:20AM +0100, Douglas Russell wrote: |
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> I think there are two camps trying to put forward points here and I'm |
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> reasonably convinced that the camp arguing strongly for a vim are the camp |
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> which also plan to us their livecds for rescue and popping in all over the |
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> place to get a useful basic linux system. I can quite understand that in this |
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> case having a powerful editor would be extremely useful. However, considering |
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> purely the case of the installation, and download size I'm sure the |
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> experienced users who are more likely to be using vi would be able to manage |
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> editing a single file with nano. |
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> I must say I really liked the idea from earlier on which would allow you to |
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> easily add things to your livecd easily to make your own custom livecd, then |
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> you can make it as huge as you want, with vim, emacs or whatever, creating |
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> your perfect livecd. |
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I'm sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I'm specifically referring to inside |
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the stage - i.e., what's available when you chroot. That's where you'll |
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be doing things like editing make.conf. |
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I have no strong feelings about what goes on the LiveCD. |
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