Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x

[Mark Gordon]

On 29 Apr 2003 14:36:17 +0800
Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 14:24, Mike Lundy wrote:
>
> > This means they have a fundamental misunderstanding of the use
> > flags. If they tell vim they want X, it builds with X support. Why
> > would someone have X in their use flags if they didn't want X
> > support?

> Because if you build vim with X in your use flags and you try and run
> "vim" from a non-X console or a console ssh session it wont run!  I
> have had to stuff around compiling vim with USE="-X" with two machines
> now so I could fix other problems from a console remote login.  vim
> should default to -X unless overidden specifically and locally.  Note
> that you do want X support for most other apps though, so honouring a
> global USE is not a good idea for vim..

I have similar problems. I sometimes have to ssh to a machine that does
NOT support X forwarding, then ssh from there to one of my Gentoo boxes
to do things. It is a real pain to have vim fail because I have not
got X forwarding. I know there are ways to work around it, but it is
unexpected behaviour when there is a separate ebuild for vim with GUI
support.

If/when portage preserves overrides of USE on doing an upgrade it will
be easier for those of us that want vim without X for remote access but
most other things with X support.

I don't think you will ever make everyone happy whatever you do :-/
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