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From: "Björn Lindström" <bkhl@×××××××××××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:05:34
Message-Id: 20030429182847.GH18711@lucien.dreaming
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x by William Kenworthy
1 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> [20030429 18:05]:
2 > I agree this is fine in theory, but what I am trying to push is that
3 > building vim with X is a *BAD* idea because if you lose X as happens
4 > occasionally (see the forums for problems with the current XFree-4.3
5 > upgrade), you can (and in my case it *HAS* happened), be left with a
6 > system without a viable editor - workstation, server or whatever.
7
8 I don't get this. Where I sit, gvim launches vim if it can't connect to
9 an X server.
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x Mark Gordon <mark.gt@×××××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>