From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@prosalg.no>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:27:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020311172701.6e51feec.karltk@prosalg.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020310031135.GA29666@powerhouse>
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:11:35 -0600
mrfab@arn.net wrote:
> First, where the hell is vi? It is missing from
> both the boot image and the base install. I
> realize that I can emerge it, but having to use
> an editor as horrible as nano, even just for the
> initial config, was a bit obnoxious.
We wanted to restrict ourselves wrt the amount of editors we crammed on
the installation binary. Formerly, we used e3, which has pico, vi and
emacs modes. For some reason (portability ? drobbins ?), e3 was switched
out with nano. (In all fairness, e3 was a bit flaky, but being written in
x86 asm, it was very small).
If vi was included, it would be in addition to nano, as it is a reasonable
assumption that vi-ers are capable of using nano, while the reverse is
not.
Kind regards,
Karl T
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-11 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-10 3:11 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo observations mrfab
2002-03-10 3:29 ` Matthew Kennedy
2002-03-10 9:39 ` Gert Menke
2002-03-10 13:43 ` mrfab
2002-03-10 14:22 ` Gert Menke
2002-03-10 15:03 ` mrfab
2002-03-10 18:13 ` [gentoo-dev] how to add new Language specific Symbol? Corvus Corax
2002-03-11 16:27 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg [this message]
2002-03-12 20:30 ` [gentoo-dev] I needed to remerge cvs after zlib update Brent Cook
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