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Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> when was the last time you used ed? it is a completely useless editor, |
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> peeps use vim instead. |
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I use "vi", not "vim", though of course the former is a symlink to the |
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latter on Linux systems for the last number of years. |
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Last time I used ed was on an RH system with a broken /usr mount; vi |
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was on that partition, but ed lived in /bin, so I used it to fix |
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/etc/fstab. Using ed is like riding a bicycle; you remember pretty |
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quickly how to use it. But then, I've been using Unix since halfway |
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back to the Epoch. |
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> anyway, who says you cannot install ed if you want it so bad? |
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I don't think Larry The Cow wants some group of people deciding that |
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all Gentoo users have to get exactly a certain set of tools. The |
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embedded folk have everything they need if it boots at all, prettymuch. |
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I'd want to have all the traditional Unix stuff available as a baseline, |
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while someone coming to Linux for the first time in 2005 might never |
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want to bother with some of the tools of that older generation. |
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Possibly there should be a "tradunix" ebuild that pulls in all the |
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traditional Unix stuff as dependencies (and is otherwise empty), and |
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similarly for other sets of things people hold dear, just to act as |
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macros when you're setting up a system. |
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The baseline should be as barebones as possible. Offering a set of |
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things useful to the new user is a useful default, but should be only |
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that, not a set of things you have to accept if you want to pick and |
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choose stuff yourself. |
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Anthony de Boer |
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