Hello! On Fri, 19 May 2006 08:46:28 -0500, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: >> At 1148052328 past the epoch, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > Using popcon would ensure that the applications which most >> > people prefer would be the default; this is a fair and objective >> > criterion. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> >> Interesting idea, but by my reckoning that would make "ed" the >> default editor for most people, which I don't think is a good idea: >> <http://popcon.debian.org/main/editors/by_inst> > > That's not an issue. First, ed doesn't install an alternatives for > "editor". Second, there's also 'by_vote', which puts vim on top. ed is installed as an alternative "editor": ===== luca@gismo:~$ su Password: gismo:/home/luca# update-alternatives --list editor /bin/ed /usr/bin/emacs21 /usr/bin/mcedit-debian /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot /usr/bin/vim.tiny gismo:/home/luca# ===== And the postinst script says so, too: ===== luca@gismo:~$ grep alternatives /var/lib/dpkg/info/ed.postinst update-alternatives --quiet --install /usr/bin/editor editor /bin/ed -100 \ luca@gismo:~$ ===== Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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