On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:55 -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I will testify on a stack of howtos that the following code appears very 
> near the beginning of the "chroot-time" bash script I use to perform an 
> install:
> 
> export EDIT="nano -w" # just in case
> 
> # get a *real* editor
> emerge -k vim && export EDIT="vim"
> 
> $EDIT /etc/fstab
> 
>    .
>    .
>    .
> 
> To play devil's advocate, though, downloading and compiling "vim" is a 
> tad more time-consuming than accessing a pre-compiled "vim" from a 
> stage1 tarball would be. Nano is a very light editor. Is there room on a 
> minimal LiveCD for "vim" and all its dependencies?

Well, vim is on the minimal LiveCD, and has been for at least 2 releases
now.  What we are discussing is vim being in the stages, which would
make it available within the chroot during an install.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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