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

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Jan de Groot<jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:14 +0200, Xavier wrote:
>> The only problem is that you can not always upgrade just one package.
>> Sometimes you also need to upgrade a set of related packages.
>> And in case of big rebuild, that set might be the whole testing repo.
>>
>> As long as you are skilled enough to determine which packages you can
>> safely pick from testing, there is no problem.
>
> That's why you should follow arch-dev-public. At this moment we have a
> massive readline rebuild sitting in testing. So when you pacman -S one
> package from testing that pulls in readline, you know you're in trouble
> if you don't update everything.
> This issue will hit people also when the new readline moves to core btw.
> People will install a single package on their outdated system, pacman
> pulls in new readline, deletes old libraries and everything is dead,
> system unbootable, chroot not even possible as the shell binary is
> killed by missing readline.

init=/bin/dash

The lightweight shell is good for something, rather than putting all
your marbles in the bash basket.

-Dan