[arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Fri May 7 10:57:05 EDT 2010


On 05/07/2010 09:48 AM, Burlynn Corlew Jr wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Johannes Held <mail at hehejo.de> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.archlinux.org/news/495/
>>
>> * If you have gvim installed, the update will inform you that vim conflicts
>>  with gvim. This is the expected behavior. Installation of vim and gvim
>>  separately is no longer required, the gvim package now installs vim as
>> well.
>>
>> --
>> Gruß, Johannes
>> http://hehejo.de
>>
> 
> This is a rolling release, not an LTS. There is no excuse to not be updating
> regularly and reading the news. If its a production machine and you are
> worried about breakage maybe you shouldnt be running arch on it. The ML,
> forums, and irc are full of people who refuse to read the news or update
> regularly, and we all waste time answering questions that with proper arch
> maintenance would ensure that they never come up.
> 

It's people like you that give arch a bad reputation. Grow up.

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