That and because pico falls under the pine license which is less than
friendly to redistribution (especially modified versions).
2008/6/22 James Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> pico is symlinked to nano because nano is based on the design (and
> maybe the code) of pico. Pico was used in Panther but not Tiger and
> not Leopard.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ which pico
> /usr/bin/pico
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ls -l /usr/bin/pico
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jun 22 17:22 /usr/bin/pico -> nano
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ uname -a
> Darwin xray-lan.carcinogenic-studios.com 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version
> 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386
> i386
>
> James
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
>
>> I noticed that MacOS 10.5 has pico but not pine.
>>
>> ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ Qingye Jiang (John)
>> `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) Senior Manager
>> (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..- Sun Developer Network, China
>> _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' Phone: +86-10-62673347
>> (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' http://developers.sun.com.cn/
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> About ME: visit http://www.qyjohn.net/, http://calendar.qyjohn.net/.
>> About US: visit http://wiki.gceclub.sun.com.cn/index.php/SDN_China .
>>
>>
>>
>> James Cornell 写道:
>>> This is an issue mirrored on all UNIX-like and UNIX systems. gksu
>>> gedit might suit you. For practicality, running a GUI editor as
>>> root is a no-no. Nano is the way to go, as pico is bundled with
>>> pine, which is dead news. I just feel that starting up dependent
>>> gnome subsystems as root just to run an editor is naive. I used to
>>> run nedit on my IRIX system which is decent.
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Paul Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> >> wrote:
>>>
>>> If Indiana is intended to be a distro for widespread adoption by
>>> people who are not traditional Solaris users Vim (or Emacs) is a
>>> poor choice for the text editor on the Live CD.
>>>
>>> Nano or(something similarly 'braindead' as described to me on
>>> #opensolaris) is the way to go.
>>>
>>> Those who are smart enough to edit text files with Vim or Emacs
>>> will soon "pkg install vim" or whatever.
>>>
>>> I would suggest that future editions consider nano or perhaps
>>> pico. Or is there a simple way to edit text files with gedit as
>>> root?
>>> --
>>>
>>> This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> indiana-discuss mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> indiana-discuss mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
>>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> indiana-discuss mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
>
--
Shawn Walker
_______________________________________________
indiana-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
