On 29/03/15 18:15, 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
I went ahead and filed the following tasks to get this implemented: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44603 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44604
