[arch-dev-public] status of vi/vim in testing

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jun 17 08:11:05 EDT 2009


Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> Hi
> just wondered, what is the status of vi/vim in testing, this one blocks 
> archboot from moving to extra, is there any progress of moving it to 
> extra/core?
>   

On this topic, both vi an vim are currently in base.  Is this a mistake? 
I find the new (n)vi unusable and and removed it and make vi a symlink 
to vim.  Although the current vim is bigger, I would not object to 
removing vi and adding a symlink from vi to vim-normal...

Allan





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