[arch-releng] Dropping vi and adding vim-minimal to the installation image

[Christian Hesse]

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at gmail.com> on Sun, 2015/03/29 14:18:
> On 03/29/2015 12:15 PM, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> > This was discussed about two years ago but no action was taken.
> > 
> > The proposal is simple:
> > 
> > - Drop the vi package from the repos
> > - Add vim-minimal to the installation image
> > 
> > This seems like a good idea because the vi editor we ship is about 10
> > years old and it has never behaved correctly for me.
> > 
> > It was brought up that some applications hardcode vi as their fallback
> > editor, but I think it should be up to the user to configure proper
> > EDITOR or VISUAL environment variables. During installation, none of
> > these programs needs to launch an editor (perhaps with the exception
> > of visudo which I can configure to search for vim). [1]
> > 
> > I did a test ISO build replacing vi with vim-minimal and the image
> > size increased by about 15 MiB.
> > 
> > If there are no objections until mid-April, I suggest we implement
> > this in the May snapshot.
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024357.html
> > 
> 
> +1 for me.

And another +1 for me!
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