From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3ME5cJG019141 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:05:38 GMT Received: from [213.134.113.127] (helo=[10.122.0.61]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DOymT-0004w3-Hy for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:05:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system From: Spider To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4268A33F.9070704@gentoo.org> References: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050421181719.443a292b@snowdrop> <31cfb4d00504211209117bf4e5@mail.gmail.com> <20050422064651.GA7439@sympatico.ca> <4268A33F.9070704@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6u/Ouj0p619I/PHJYd+7" Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:05:43 +0200 Message-Id: <1114178743.3552.10.camel@Darkmere> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 89fdf9f9-dfac-4dd4-b182-e49475365a99 X-Archives-Hash: 8ccbd6833b5ea5b498775f7c78e60b67 --=-6u/Ouj0p619I/PHJYd+7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:09 +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: >=20 > when was the last time you used ed? it is a completely useless editor, No. its the only editor that can change a file without munging up the inodes. Its very useful because of this. And its also easy to shoot yourself in the foot because of this. btw, both ed and bc is used in a lot of configure scripts, more than I care to remember ( I believe that things like enlightenment had calls to it...) so replacing this involves you doing a very massive regression test. Have fun.=20 //Spider --=20 begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end --=-6u/Ouj0p619I/PHJYd+7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCaQS3ZS9CZTi033kRAgcHAJ9889anm8Ay4SxKDWH9LhxFRMrCoACfRdnU roNVNkUtX7zoartXCQwRWBw= =9y9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6u/Ouj0p619I/PHJYd+7-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list