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

[James Rayner]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I'm just trying to give it a whirl on a testing box. The main issue is
> that the old package created a symlink that is not tracked by the
> version control at all. So before people can update to the new packages,
> they will have to remove one or two symlinks manually, which is ugly.

Maybe in:  vim.install pre_install(), remove the files if they're
symlinks? I know it's yucky too.