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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:05:46 +0100
schrieb "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>: 

> On 23:39:17 2007-02-02 Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> > > ed isn't a TEXT-EDITOR provider, that is e3. ;)
> > 
> Then it should be as it is a text editor and the only editor that the FHS
> says can optionaly be installed into /bin so it's usefull as an emergency
> fallback editor.

First: How the heck do you edit text with ed? It looks to me like a more 
advanced version of the "How to get back to the console" game named vi;-)
Second: FHS does not just say "ed may be optionally instaled to /bin", it 
says "if ed is installed, there _must_ be the binary or at least a symlink to 
ed in /bin".

I feel this issue if a system default EDITOR related to

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13067

It seems to be desirable to have some kind of usable editor for system files 
in the / fs in case admin has to recover from a situation where /usr is 
unavailable.
The definition of usable depends on the admin ... and he kindof answers that 
when choosing an TEXT-EDITOR as dependency of basesystem.
Apart from the question who owns the EDITOR env variable, shouldn't we make 
an effort to also install the chosen TEXT-EDITOR to /bin ?
At least nano wouldn't be a problem, since it only links to libc and ncurses.