[arch-dev-public] Dropping vi and adding vim-minimal to the installation image

[Jerome Leclanche]

On 29 March 2015 at 18:07, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Evangelos Foutras <evangelos at foutrelis.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This was discussed about two years ago but no action was taken.
>>
>> The proposal is simple:
>>
>> - Drop the vi package from the repos
>> - Add vim-minimal to the installation image
>>
>
> Fine with me. Go ahead.
>
>
>> This seems like a good idea because the vi editor we ship is about 10
>> years old and it has never behaved correctly for me.
>>
>> It was brought up that some applications hardcode vi as their fallback
>> editor, but I think it should be up to the user to configure proper
>> EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables. During installation, none of
>> these programs needs to launch an editor (perhaps with the exception
>> of visudo which I can configure to search for vim). [1]
>>
>> I did a test ISO build replacing vi with vim-minimal and the image
>> size increased by about 15 MiB.
>>
>> If there are no objections until mid-April, I suggest we implement
>> this in the May snapshot.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024357.html
>>

+1, glad to see this on the roadmap again.

J. Leclanche