On 30/03/15 08:29, Allan McRae wrote: > On 30/03/15 01:15, 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] > > Or... just add a symlink from vim to vi? >
What happened to adding a symlink? Now there is no "vi" in base, many packages there are broken out of the box - sudo (visudo), bash (bashbug), less (when pressing v). There is bound to be more... Or are we having all those packages depend on vim? I never had vi installed on my system and had to make the symlink to vim because there was so many things that wanted it. A
