[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])

[Jason Steadman]

On 24 January 2013 16:27, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 11:05:22 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:
> > +1 to drop vi. I cannot imagine why someone would want to use this crap
> ...
> >
> > We already have nano in [core], so I think that vim could stay in
> > [extra] (do we really need 2 text editors in [core] ?).
>
> Vi is the standard UNIX text-editor.  Many admins rely on the fact that vi
> is
> available everywhere.  It really should be in core.
>
> Also, I know you might be referring to "plain vi", which is a completely
> different beast to Vim, but the latter (which provides "vi" too) has a
> *huge*
> userbase.  Calling it crap is just bizarre...
>
> Paul
>

What about stuff like visudo?  Maybe make it an optdepend or something?

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Jason Steadman