On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:54:13PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If *some* text editor is *required* (ie, the system *cannot* be recovered > without it), then one of them needs to be required, but if you replace it > by some other, that's not big deal. I don't think it is required though, > as you can always use cat (textutils) or dd (fileutils) or sed (sed) > or similar if you really need it. We already have a /etc/alternatives/editor, and it would probably not be a bad idea to depend on something that Provides: editor rather than depending on ae itself.
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