On 2/9/07, Robert Connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I'm not sure about FHS compliance or whatever, but Vim is the only > interactive editor we have in the base system. Other than Sed and Awk there > isn't really any way to edit any system files unless /usr is mounted. > > If we had Ed it might be a different story, but I think Vim should be > installed to /bin so it is available in single-user mode, etcetera . > > robert I find it is good to have an editor for the failsafe portion of the system, to make life easier when debugging in single user or umounted modes (the case where /usr is a seperate partition and mount is broken..)
I believe it is a good idea, go for it. -- Kevin Day -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
