On 22/04/15 04:08, Allan McRae 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.
I know it's anecdotal evidence, but I've always removed vi from my systems and never noticed any problems. Adherence to POSIX can be a compelling argument though. All right, let's go with vim-minimal.
