On 29 March 2015 at 18:07, Anatol Pomozov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]> > 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 >> > > Fine with me. Go ahead. > > >> 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, glad to see this on the roadmap again. J. Leclanche
