On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:07:30AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > >> The comparison breaks down as there isn't an editor which is actually > >> essential. > > > Yes, but _an_ editor is almost essential. Well, it's essential all right if > > you consider that things like dircolors or nl are essential, but some people > > will never use them (like there are people that will never use editors). > > >>From a package dependency point of view, almost essential is a world away > from actually being essential.
Packages can assume that the user has means of editing config files without declaring a dependency on any single editor. If you feel it's not comparable to the situation where packages can assume they can run ls without declaring a dependency on fileutils, fine, but that's nitpicking... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
