On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Xavier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have made a change to the patch package that "ed" is now an optional >> dependency. I've searched through our svn and all I've found is that no >> other package depends on ed. I think "ed" is still a widely used *nix >> editor and you would expect it to be there. >> > > Just out of curiosity, does anyone here actually use ed? I never used > it, not even once :)
I've only used it once or twice. It's definitely neat, I'll tell you that. > Anyway, it's a 100kb package with no deps, and according to you, well > maintained upstream, so I don't think it's much important where it > sits. I say we keep it in core, for now. ed is actually a POSIX required utility. It appears the standards require registration to view - ugh. The LSB has a list of POSIX compliant utilities here: http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/command.html See all commands marked [1]
