Bug#546938: texlive-bin: depends on ed
On Do, 17 Sep 2009, Frank Küster wrote:
> Hm, I'm currently not sure why we need ed in the build process - that
> might even just be a historical debris.
No, ed is called for some operations of creating the texmf.cnf or
something like that.
> But I'm very reluctant to patch upstream's scripts. They are under
Yes, me too.
> active development, and updating the patches would be a pain. On the
> other hand, once luatex stabilizes those scripts will probably be
> rewritten in lua. This means the problem would go away with the 2010 or
No, most probably in perl to make it portable.
> 2011 release.
Yes, we hope to have perl versions for 2010.
Best wishes
Norbert
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