From 58f851da61dd9c7723be3130cec5d8bd14b0f715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:28:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added note that ed is optional

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1119 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter06/ed-inst.xml | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/chapter06/ed-inst.xml b/chapter06/ed-inst.xml
index c588b1f2a..ed397e2a1 100644
--- a/chapter06/ed-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/ed-inst.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 <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>