Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:02:19 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <20090624155736.GC84350@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <200906241622.19708.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <4A420701.5020505@gmail.com> <200906241622.19708.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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--0H629O+sVkh21xTi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:22:19PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >=20 > You also suggested doing away with ed and /rescue/vi altogether. You may = not=20 > need statically-linked tools very often, but when you do need them, you= =20 > *REALLY* need them. Don't suggest throwing them away without thinking thr= ough=20 > the implications. I think the intent was to do away with /bin/ed and /rescue/vi in favor of /bin/vi -- not to do away with /bin/ed and /rescue/vi and replace them with nothing. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Alan Kay: "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." --0H629O+sVkh21xTi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpCTgsACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWRiQCfTJjZuiL7CcqA+1Uw5JPMHhlC XLUAoOWzzj2+XhdtamFzOEGN01zJfB9F =pFi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0H629O+sVkh21xTi--
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