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

Ionut Biru biru.ionut at gmail.com
Fri May 7 11:15:09 EDT 2010


On 05/07/2010 11:43 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> 	I have had vim and gvim installed side by side for 6 months+, today during
> update, pacman wanted to remove vim because it now conflicts with gvim. So I
> removed gvim and updated. What is the conflict? Why a conflict now when there
> hasn't been one in the past? Just checking...
>

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19087

basically in the past when installing gvim when having vim, we had some 
hacky symlinks, now gvim comes with vim and that's why is conflicting.



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Ionut


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