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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:58:56 -0600
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:00:16PM -0400, Brad Laue wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm running into builds requiring the 'ex' binary, which is provided
> > by several vi clones.
> > 
> > I'd like to suggest the creation of 'virtual/vi' to satisfy this 
> > problem. Are there any comments/objections?
> 
> Should we have a virtual/vi and a virtual/ex? Or should we require
> that anything providing virtual/vi includes an ex?

Anything that provides vi should out of compability reasons also provide
ex.

Now, why isnt this discussion on -dev?
//Spider

(not removing quotes due to crossposting)


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