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

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis<grbzks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I would be in favour of building a vim package in [core] that includes
> both
> > a vi & vim binary
>
> or you mean symlinking vi to vim... which is fine. the problem is not
> so much 'really vi but vim' but more that the whole package was/is
> (testing not included) really really screwed up. if busybox was in
> arch by default I'd suggest symlinking to that and let people change
> the symlink if they need something more powerful, esp since busybox
> can provide so many apps.
>
> --
> Caleb Cushing
>
> http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
>


No i dont mean symlinking vi to vim.
Thats not an option. See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13239#comment39968
& downwards.
I mean building both in the same PKGBUILD. See the CRUX Pkgfile i posted
previously
I think it does exactly that.
-- 
Greg