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 (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j21Ae8tM012831 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:40:08 GMT Received: from 202-47-55-78.adsl.gil.com.au ([202.47.55.78] helo=longlandclan.hopto.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D64nL-0002vL-Ff for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:40:04 +0000 Received: (qmail 15534 invoked by uid 210); 1 Mar 2005 20:40:04 +1000 Received: from 10.0.0.251 by www (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.0.0.251):. Processed in 0.141579 secs); 01 Mar 2005 10:40:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.251?) (10.0.0.251) by 192.168.5.1 with SMTP; 1 Mar 2005 20:40:04 +1000 Message-ID: <42244681.9000808@longlandclan.hopto.org> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:40:01 +1000 From: Stuart Longland User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big References: <20050223190035.618a8aab@snowdrop> <20050227202307.3d6470b7@snowdrop> <20050301012151.GA19328@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20050301082014.5db712e5@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050301082014.5db712e5@snowdrop> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig14D4DF71F2386F2166076FF6" X-Archives-Salt: 3be75394-14f1-4f35-94a7-a1c4824456df X-Archives-Hash: 44fb89a9d0b9531d71cf1080d898cb7b This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig14D4DF71F2386F2166076FF6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:21:51 -0800 "Robin H. Johnson" > wrote: > | More suggestions. > > Looks good, thanks. > > | All of the following are usable as text editors. > | less -> app-editors (I consider it a read-only editor) > | ed -> app-editors (You can use it on a serial terminal nicely) > | sed -> app-editors > > I'm strongly inclined to disagree on these three. Mmmmaybe ed. sed's > definitely a sys-app. Well... technically it is an editor... the name comes from Stream EDitor -- and it does indeed do exactly that -- you pass some text into stdin, give it some rules... and edited text comes out stdout. So on that basis, I'd definately consider it an editor -- albeit a not so user friendly one. less though, is more in a grey area. Technically it's a pager/file viewer, and should be put together with more, gless, and other similar apps. Perhaps a new category, app-viewers, could be made for this purpose -- applications that allow viewing of various file types. That's my AU$0.022 (GST Inclusive) worth :-) -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic Linux Project -oOo- http://atomicl.berlios.de | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ --------------enig14D4DF71F2386F2166076FF6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCJEaEuarJ1mMmSrkRAkpJAJ4/M7IX2cwYrN1Qot2CpFpdWbdCwgCfXj3H PIhnaJcC/Z/lLliSHvokPO4= =a8CW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig14D4DF71F2386F2166076FF6-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list