Re: New virtual package names.
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: New virtual package names. "):
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> Well, I'm pretty sure that Bill didn't just wake up one morning and say
> "Wow! That essential field sure is neat! Let's put it in ae! My assumption
> was that this was an attempt to keep ae in the system.
I think that Bill was under the mistaken impression that every base
package should be marked essential.
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> No, I am concerned about programs that might use $EDITOR as the means to
> providing an editor. [...]
As has been pointed out, the dependency scheme doesn't help at all
here.
Ian.
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