Re: What is the "editor" virtual package for?

[Roland Bauerschmidt <rb@debian.org>]

Steve Greenland wrote:
> Remember, the purpose of virtual packages is to provide a way for
> other packages to Depend on a specific functionality *with a specific
> interface*, without having to know all the packages that provide that
> functionality.

In my understanding, the shared interface of all[1] editors is that they
allow interactive modification of a file when called with that file as
an argument. An Wouter pointed out, I believe that the use of
/usr/bin/editor and sensible-editor is already based on that assumption.

Roland

[1] Or let's say what we define as an editor.