Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Following a suggestion in http://bugs.debian.org/457898, the > mime-support packages links /usr/bin/view to /usr/bin/see via the > alternatives system, since the vim package also provides /usr/bin/view > in such a way.
> These two ‘view’ commands do not provide the same functions, which > triggers bugs such as http://bugs.debian.org/623384. > I will most probably remove /usr/bin/view from mime-support, but just in > case, I would like to hear if some people are strongly relying on it. Perhaps this is just because I'm an old UNIX person, but I would expect the view command to launch vi in read-only mode. So I'm in favor of dropping linking it to see. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mwkpcseo....@windlord.stanford.edu
