Comment 3 for bug 372364
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote Re: /bin/vi missing (POSIX compliance?) | #3 |
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The comment about POSIX compliance is certainly mistaken, since POSIX specifies normal behaviour of the system rather than what happens in a recovery environment when /usr is missing; vi is also in the User Portability Utilities extension rather than part of core POSIX. That said, I do have some sympathy with the wish that it should be available as a recovery tool. There's no need for it to be statically linked - all the libraries it uses are already in /.
The alternatives system that manages /usr/bin/vi is a bit delicate, though, so I think the best approach here is for me to forward this report to the Debian maintainers.