Hi fellow packagers,
I'm currently in the process of packaging vim-classic[1], for now just
as a COPR (if anyone would be interested in co-maintaining in Fedora
proper, please reach out).
My question is in regards to whether and (if so) how to make vim and
vim-classic able to coexist on one machine. I managed to untangle the
runtime components, but for the user-facing parts (list below) I'm not
sure how to proceed:
* binaries (vim, ex, gvim, xxd, ...)
* manuals for said binaries
* /etc/vi{m,}rc
I personally would like to package vim-classic in a way that allows
coexistance. This would make my job as packager easier and would allow
users to migrate slowly. Most importantly, multi-user systems (e.g.
servers maintained by a group of sysadmins) would each have the option
to use their preferred flavour of editor.
I've read the Conflicts section of the Packager Guide[2], but I do not
particularly like any of the options.
* Upstream by default builds the binaries with names that conflict with
VIM proper but the build system can be coaxed into producing names
with e.g. a "-classic" suffix. But a user would probably like to
invoke vim-classic as vim (hence upstream's decision).
* the update-alternatives would require cooperation with the Fedora vim
package, and editors (vi, even) is specifically mentioned as an
example when not to use it
* environment modules are in my personal option a PITA and also target a
different kind of program (that is less user-visible) as far as I can
tell.
A solution inspired by the `{vim,nano}-default-editor` packages would
make sense to me: The base package installs binaries/etc in a
non-conflicting manner, and a subpackage `vim-classic-as-vim` would
provide symlinks (and declares `Conflicts: vim`). This gets a bit more
complicated, because vim-classic (inherited from vim) is split into
multiple subpackages, each of which would need a corresponding `-as-vim`
package, to only provide the symlinks for files actually on the system.
Can anyone provide some input on this?
My WIP spec file and patches live here:
https://girst.fedorapeople.org/vim-classic/
Thanks,
tobi
[1]: https://vim-classic.org
[2]:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Conflicts/#_binary_name_conflicts
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