On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 14:07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> 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-gen... See all commands marked [1]
I second keeping it in core. It's a standard and according to what I've heard, is extremely useful for visually impaired users. --Daenyth