>> Well actually on my live slackware 14 (x86) vi is a link to elvis
>>
>> Although both are installed, by default vi is linked to elvis (and it's
>> not something I did manually). looking at the sizes I cannot but agree
>> that on the miniroot vim is just eating up space (just guessing that the
>> arm packages will me more or less the same size) and on top of that
>> there's 120Mb of dependencies to use it !
>Since (if selected) elvis is installed first (due to being in series 'a'),
>it sets up a symlink in the doinst.sh script.
>If vim is installed, its doinst.sh script checks for the presence of the
>'vi' symlink, and if not present, will symlink 'vi' to 'vim'.
>root@pepa:~/ac/source/a/elvis# head -n2 /var/log/scripts/elvis-2.2-arm-2
>( cd usr/bin ; rm -rf vi )
>( cd usr/bin ; ln -sf elvis vi )
>root@pepa:~/ac/source/a/elvis#
I noticed that vi in the miniroot slackware ARM 14 is still vim and lacking
libs to make it functional. Elvis is not installed in the miniroot.
Ok you can put it right pretty fast but it can be annoying if on the target
device there is no means to get an extra package in apart from manipulating the
flash.
Ciao
David
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