From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 16:08:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92EF106564A for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-314.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-314.bluehost.com [67.222.54.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 863CB8FC25 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 19968 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jun 2009 16:08:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy6.bluehost.com with SMTP; 24 Jun 2009 16:08:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=LVKHn0u5Bh4LFOMRAmwWUgUzv6R3dBlF/+E23asp6cOGIwv0yBDCvbZ11m99tGiiSFCR85YYwFfipL3gt0IGU6HcL/x0lPpMM1jCmUUqc126zJfC2r1Srm9eTx661QSB; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJV18-0001F3-2V for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:08:10 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:02:19 -0600 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:02:19 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090624155736.GC84350@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4A420701.5020505@gmail.com> <200906241622.19708.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0H629O+sVkh21xTi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906241622.19708.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:08:18 -0000 --0H629O+sVkh21xTi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 04:22:19PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >=20 > You also suggested doing away with ed and /rescue/vi altogether. You may = not=20 > need statically-linked tools very often, but when you do need them, you= =20 > *REALLY* need them. Don't suggest throwing them away without thinking thr= ough=20 > the implications. I think the intent was to do away with /bin/ed and /rescue/vi in favor of /bin/vi -- not to do away with /bin/ed and /rescue/vi and replace them with nothing. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Alan Kay: "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." --0H629O+sVkh21xTi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpCTgsACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWRiQCfTJjZuiL7CcqA+1Uw5JPMHhlC XLUAoOWzzj2+XhdtamFzOEGN01zJfB9F =pFi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0H629O+sVkh21xTi--