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

[Daenyth Blank]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:11, Grigorios Bouzakis<grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Since having vi is required by the POSIX standards, wouldn't a bundled
vi+vim make perl required? Or is it an actual optdepend for vim? (I'm
not at my home box at the moment to check)