Re: essential packages and Pre-Depends

[john@dhh.gt.org]

I wrote:
> I just looked at ed and found to my surprise that it is neither essential
> nor required.

manoj writes:
> Have you researched this?

I haven't attempted to determine what might use it, no.

>I think people don't really use ed any more that much (and since Perl and
> awk and sed are already essential, I do not see a pressing need to change
> the status quo.

If nobody is using it and everybody knows they shouldn't, I see no need to
change at all.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI