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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a)
- From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
- To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a)
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:26:10 -0600
On Feb 03, Thomas Orgis [thomas-forum AT orgis.org] wrote:
> Am Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:05:46 +0100
> schrieb "Andra?? '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's not that hard. It's basically interactive sed.
> 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
I made comments there. I really would like the grimoire team to fix their
bugzilla usage so that there's a way to just be on the grimoire-bugs list
and see all traffic. I don't like missing bugs because they happen to be
in a section someone once owned.
> 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 ?
Not unless the admin asks us to, no. It's their /, not ours.
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a)
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Jaka Kranjc, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Eric Sandall, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Jaka Kranjc, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Eric Sandall, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 02/02/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Thomas Orgis, 02/03/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 02/03/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Thomas Orgis, 02/03/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 02/03/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Jeremy Blosser, 02/03/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik, 02/02/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Jeremy Blosser, 02/03/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Eric Sandall, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Jaka Kranjc, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Eric Sandall, 02/02/2007
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Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a),
Jaka Kranjc, 02/02/2007
- Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Jaka Kranjc (b8022b35580d12123db37612a833022342e6226a), Jeremy Blosser, 02/03/2007
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