Re: ae's vi attempt on boot disks stomps on real vi symlink
Hi,
I have kept off this thread since I *hate* getting on yet
another editor jihad, which this has all the symptoms of
becoming. But the following exchange got my goat ...
Karl> I think that an experienced unix person will fully understand the
Karl> newbie's predicament, and that it's a given to them that `Emacs`
Karl> and `vi` will be available. They will quickly see that when
Karl> `dselect` is run during the install process.
Craig> we have already had several reports of people who have looked
Craig> at installing debian (or been shown it by debian users) but
Craig> decided against using it because vi wasn't on the base
Craig> disks. they didn't bother even getting to the stage of running
Craig> dselect.
I think that reaction is unreasonable. If these people are so
incompetent that they base techncal decisions on so little evidence,
I do not think it is reasonable to expect us to bend over backwards
to cater to their whims.
It is not as if Debian does not contain vi -- we are talking
about a ``crippled'' system, in a sense, because on a first initial
install that's what a system is -- it is not a complete system
*yet*.
And yes, I consider my self an experienced unix person, and I
have been stuch using cat, grep, and ed on professional machines when
things screwed up royally -- or during initial install, when I wanted
to configure the system *my* way (Ultrix, HP-UNIX, Dec OSF-1. and
Digital Unix).
I think Really experienced Unix people are used to not
having vi available during emergency/installation periods. How many
commercial unices have vi on / anyway?
manoj. slightly incensed.
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