Re: [arch-dev-public] new vi/vim/gvim

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Tobias Kieslich wrote:

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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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What if we have the gvim package optdepend on gtk and the like? "Install these for GUI support" ? I dunno if that would work, but it's an idea.

I thought exactly that, but a quick test on twm with pacman -Rd gtk2 gave me a missing .so file when I tried the vim binary. So I guess that's a no. Booo.

So my only problem with this is the original reason why we went to this scheme: too many people complained that they could not get a featureful vim without installing gvim and all the deps. Dolby suggested on one of the bug reports, to stick with the current split and just rename "vi" -> "vim-core" in a similar manner as dbus. It's not as barebones as nvi, but that's not a terrible thing.

I don't know a proper solution here, but I'm just pointing out that we'd go back where we started.

Has anything been decided with this? Apparently vim needs a patch to build against the latest ruby which I was going to attempt updating soon. Allan