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  • 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 18:29:07 -0600

On Feb 03, "Andra?? 'ruskie' Levstik" [ruskie AT mages.ath.cx] wrote:
> On 23:23:17 2007-02-03 Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'd go with e3 then...
> e3 is a full-screen, user-friendly text editor with an interface
> similar to that of either WordStar, Emacs, Pico, Nedit, or vi.

"Go with" for what? As a replacement for nano in basesystem? The point of
these bugs is to get unnecessary depends out of basesystem so admin can
choose their own, not switch to a different unnecessary depends.

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