From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26482 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jul 2003 03:16:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18548 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 03:16:27 -0000 Message-ID: <3F0CDAB9.4040502@brad-x.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 23:17:13 -0400 From: Brad Laue User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030709 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F0C4A20.9030704@gentoo.org> <20030710022845.GA28875@time> In-Reply-To: <20030710022845.GA28875@time> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Creation of 'virtual/vi' to satisfy builds X-Archives-Salt: d9bc8bfc-a2dc-4ee2-b355-53131b942260 X-Archives-Hash: 9b5fcc6617fc81974035b96da5476581 Aron Griffis wrote: > 2. What are the builds that require ex? That's a pretty strange > requirement, to be honest. Most builds I've seen require ed for > non-interactive editing, not ex. A Makefile generation script within the mozilla build required it, but I decided adding two dependencies just to make a Makefile which isn't specific to the user's system was overcomplicating matters. Also, I noticed earlier the presence of virtual/editor, which nvi/vim can satisfy, so I don't know how much utility virtual/ex will serve... Brad -- // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list