Exherbo assumes some kind of competence in its user base and now people are trying to water it down with one's favorite $EDITOR bikeshedding. User is expected to RTFM here by default.
Maybe it's best to stick to the way things are. 2014-05-05 14:31 GMT+02:00 <[email protected]>: > On May 5, 2014, Xavier Barrachina <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Maxime Coste <[email protected]> wrote: > > Note that installing a useable vim or emacs does not necessitate to edit > paludis config files, we could reflect that in the install guide by adding > a 'install your editor of choice' step before setting options. > > > The thing is the user has to check the options of the package manager > before installing. > > If not having the preferred editor in the stages is such a nuisance, could > we note in the install guide that they could use the editor from outside > the chroot if they need to? I mean, the editor is there, just change the > path. > > > I don't always have installed exherbo with a good connection to the > internet. I see keeping the stages small as a plus. > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev > > > If a potential Exherbo user is not skilled enough to google for how to > use Vim for editing the first couple of files, or figure out that they can > do it from outside the chroot as suggested, then I think it is a feature we > only have Vim. That is nice filter of the kind of user we don't really want > anyway :) > > That said, to avoid having to install another OS as part of the stages, > you could just add "mg" to the stages. The whole point of mg is to be like > Emacs without being a full-blown OS :P I have not checked how big it is, > but is should be quite small and if I remember correctly it has no deps. > > /Kim > > _______________________________________________ > Exherbo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev > >
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