Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:04:11 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications won't start Message-ID: <200906231704.11988.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com> References: <4A40DB9C.4070107@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote: > I hope the next release will address these problems, as well as a pretty > reasonable request from me much earlier to move vi from /usr/bin to > /bin. Even in single-user mode, you almost always need an editor. Which is why you have ed(1) - both in /bin and in /rescue - and /rescue/vi (although that needs a bit of tweaking due to the /etc/termcap problem). Bear in mind that /usr/bin/vi is over 300K, compared to the whole of /bin which is ~950K (if you avoid double-counting entries like /bin/csh and /bin/tcsh which are hardlinks to the same file), so you need to convince people who think /bin should stay small to let it grow by a third to save people learning ed(1). Jonathan
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