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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-08-29 20:28:37 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-08-29 20:28:37 +0000
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Added note that ed is optional
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<sect2>
<title>Installation of Ed</title>
+<para>Ed is an optional package. The only program on a normal LFS system
+that uses ed is patch. But these days, ed patch files are quite rare in
+favour of the diff format patch files. So, if you personally have no
+need to use ed, you can skip it.</para>
+
<para>Install Ed by running the following commands:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>cp buf.c buf.c.backup &amp;&amp;</userinput>