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Apologies, I should have clarified: gNewSense [1] is a FSF sponsored distro based on Debian with a freed kernel and free packages (basically the equivalent of D
by keithpeter 10y ago
Apologies, I should have clarified: gNewSense [1] is a FSF sponsored distro based on Debian with a freed kernel and free packages (basically the equivalent of Debian main). gNewSense is currently at version 4.0 and based on Debian Wheezy.
lucb1e is absolutely right, in Debian wheezy itself, ed is an 'optional' package and not installed by default from the live iso (wheezy 7.11) I just checked. Just one of those choices people make I guess, or, as others have pointed out above, it might well be a dependency of something that I have installed since on my gNewSense install [2].
[1] http://www.gnewsense.org http://www.gnewsense.org [up and down like a yoyo, mail list archive is much more stable at https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/ https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/]
[2] http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/gNewSense.html http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/gNewSense.html