[arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings

[David C. Rankin]

On Monday 22 June 2009 03:05:29 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2009 11:06:37 am David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > Listmates, Devs:
> > >
> > > 	I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid.
> >
> > Just my personal opinion here, and perhaps the devs will disagree, but
> > personally I wouldn't suggest upgrading your entire box to testing.  If
> > you only want to kick the tires on one package from testing, then
> > probably best to only install that.
> >
> > One of the things I like about Arch is how it keeps me on the cutting
> > edge with very up-to-date versions of all the packages, but still
> > manages to keep my system very stable.  IMO, if you bump everything up
> > to testing, you're going to lose a lot of that wonderful stability.
> >
> > DR
> 
> 
> Thanks DR,
> 
> 	I think I will work my way back out of [testing] while leaving dmraid 
> 1.0.15rc intact.
> 
> 

Disabling [testing] in pacman.conf and downgrading vi to 7.2.65-1 solved the problem.


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