Re: Bug#3146: 1.1 installation: ae doesn't work

[Steve Greenland <stevegr@starbase.neosoft.com>]

Bill Mitchell wrote:
> 
> 
> Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> said:
> 
> > This is something we should probably take up with the FSSTD group,
> > as I think our reasons for not using "ed" are valid. 
> 
> I don't feel very strongly about this either way.  However, it
> occurs to me that one reason for having ed available in a
> standard system is that ed scripts are sometimes used to edit
> files in place.  By not having ed available, we're saying that
> this not uncommon practice isn't supported on the standard system.

There are lots of common practices that aren't supported when you
complete an installation of the base disks. That's why we have
priorities - install everything that is required,important, or
standard, and you've got a full functioning system. I think the
base system should be sufficient to boot, do basic configuration,
and run dselect and dpkg, anything else is bonus.

Steve Greenland

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