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ed is used somewhat commonly by other programs too, so uninstalling it can break things.

• koenigdavidmj 10y ago
  If they do then they should have a package manager dependency, or that's a bug with the distribution.
  • kbp 10y ago
    If you get 100% of your software through the package manager, sure. If not, then manually uninstalling things that have been standard on Unix since version 1 isn't very smart.
  • kps 10y ago
    ed is posixically mandated, so it's a bug in the distribution anyway.
• lucb1e 10y ago
  I never noticed this, and like someone else said, then it should depend on it. I'll notice when something breaks and file a bug I guess :)