Re: Do we really care how many floppies are in the base?
> On every Unix-System there is a vi. So why should it be missing in the
> Debian GNU/Linux base system?
>
> vi is standard for every Unix, if one likes it or not. It would cause
> much confusion if we release a system that doesn't has this editor in
> the base, but another.
Commercial Unix systems come on either a CD-ROM or a large stack of
floppies, all of which need to be installed. I don't think that we
need to be this rigid. Remember: the less stuff in the base system,
the smaller our requirements are for a systme to run Debian.
> Regards,
>
> Joey
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