From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.loginet.ro (mx.ineton.ro [217.156.27.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3M79xIS020125 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:09:59 GMT Received: (qmail 9138 invoked by uid 204); 22 Apr 2005 10:09:59 +0300 Received: from mrness@gentoo.org by hera by uid 201 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:. Processed in 0.08978 secs); 22 Apr 2005 07:09:59 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: mrness@gentoo.org via hera X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.16 (Clear:. Processed in 0.08978 secs) Received: from technosoft.ro (HELO ?192.168.19.2?) (217.156.27.32) by mx.ineton.ro with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 22 Apr 2005 10:09:59 +0300 Message-ID: <4268A33F.9070704@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:09:51 +0300 From: Alin Nastac Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050412) 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cleaning out 'bc' and 'ed' from system References: <200504211306.57424.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050421181719.443a292b@snowdrop> <31cfb4d00504211209117bf4e5@mail.gmail.com> <20050422064651.GA7439@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050422064651.GA7439@sympatico.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig18F451921F61957A7960F76A" X-Archives-Salt: 7baf80b6-4f7a-4360-bdd1-472632210903 X-Archives-Hash: 1a76fcc6223eef2d382e40d70bf27fd7 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig18F451921F61957A7960F76A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Philip Webb wrote: >Ed is there because it's needed for Sed, which is useful for sysadmin; >Bc has a similar usefulness. all at basic console level. > > sed does not depend on ed, nor does the ed depend on sed. sed should remain in system since tons of ebuild heavily depends on it. when was the last time you used ed? it is a completely useless editor, peeps use vim instead. anyway, who says you cannot install ed if you want it so bad? --------------enig18F451921F61957A7960F76A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCaKNDRZBYwhawvi4RAu0zAJ9+PJEp89mHkmUUWowUSjUKjakiQQCgjzIr v0sFcghxxk4XwLY3m86pJc8= =apE0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig18F451921F61957A7960F76A-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list