> Several packages already flagrantly violate policy by shipping
> versions with and without X support; vim is one, gom is another.
I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was
linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup
because root isn't authorized to connect to the X server.
AFAIK there is no way for a program to find out if it is authorized to
connect to the X server without outputting an annoying error message.
Therefore there has to be a version of vim without X support. I
definitely don't want to unset DISPLAY, set XAUTHORITY or specify a
command-line option every time I run vim as super-user.
I do know, that I could use an alias, a script or sudo to start vim as
super-user, but it just isn't convenient.
