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I agree this is fine in theory, but what I am trying to push is that |
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building vim with X is a *BAD* idea because if you lose X as happens |
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occasionally (see the forums for problems with the current XFree-4.3 |
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upgrade), you can (and in my case it *HAS* happened), be left with a |
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system without a viable editor - workstation, server or whatever. I |
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noted that the particular problem I had is likely to be a vim bug, since |
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fixed, but the email that mentioned this did give instances where even |
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the fixed vim may fail. |
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I think this is a case where an exception should be made because the |
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likelyhood of less skilled users being left editor-less is high - and I |
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base this on the fact that its happened to me twice, on two different |
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systems! One had even been built with USE=-X, but the last upgrade |
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overuled it and used the environment +X in the build, and I missed it: |
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much to my disgust when X refused to restart due to a bad XF86Config!. |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 23:31, Caleb Shay wrote: |
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> What about a profile selection that sets the default USE flags? |
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> Something along the lines of: |
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> server: USE="-X -gtk -qt -kde -gnome" |
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> gnome-workstation: USE="X gnome gtk" |
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> kde-workstation: USE="X qt kde" |
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> You get the idea. |
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> Just my US$0.02 |
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> Caleb |
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