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Re: What to do with ae...



one suggestion would be to have ae as a symlink to nano-tiny for
backwards compatibility.  Some people will be expecting it.

or would that cause more confusion, maybe a shell script saying run
nano-tiny instead.

Just suggestions what do you think

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:26:17PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Now that the boot floppies use nano-tiny instead of ae, there is no longer
> a need for ae in the base system, or even in the distribution at large.
> 
> The upstream author has been unavailable for more than two years, there is
> no upstream source (Debian is the only source repository that I know of),
> and nobody likes it ;-)
> 
> Unless there is some bored person out there who wants to maintain this
> package, I'm ready to let it go all together (not just orphan it, but
> remove it completely).
> 
> If there are no objections (or takers) I am ready to drop this package.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Dwarf
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