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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