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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:38:07
Message-Id: 20050301153738.23dfd833@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big by Stuart Longland
1 On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:40:01 +1000 Stuart Longland
2 <stuartl@××××××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 | Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream
4 | EDitor -- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text
5 | into stdin, give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout.
6
7 So? Both are primarily used as core system utilities, not as editors, so
8 they stay in sys-apps.
9
10 --
11 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
12 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
13 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big Stuart Longland <stuartl@××××××××××××××××××.org>