vi is required by the POSIX spec and SUSv4 On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22/04/15 10:58, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > > I feel a stronger case would need to be made for moving vim-minimal to > > [core]. At the moment we're only trying to figure out a sane fallback > > editor, mostly for visudo and I guess cronie's crontab. nano seems to > > fit the bill and requires no additional packages in [core] or base. > > > > (The fact that visudo has 'vi' in its name isn't a valid argument. :P) > > No - the fact the every other distribution uses a "vi" for visudo by > default is the argument. Or at least I have failed to find one that > does... > > I'm fairly sure that having a vi installed is in one of the Linux > standards. > > A >
