Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature request for 2008.0
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:18:53
Message-Id: 479BBFCF.3020002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature request for 2008.0 by Andrew Gaffney
1 Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2 > Kamil Górnik wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I suffer lack of vi (vim) on stage3 since ever. It's not a big binary
6 >> and still there are those who prefer vi to nano.
7 >> Every time I install gentoo the first time I need to do after setting
8 >> up the system is emerging vi before emerge -Du world.
9 >
10 > We will *never* include vim instead of nano, simple because
11 > *everybody* can use nano, which many people have no fscking clue how
12 > to use vim. I've been a linux user for almost 8 years, and I've never
13 > learned how to use vim. We also will not include *both* packages,
14 > because that would bloat the stages unnecessarily.
15 >
16 > Just because you prefer vim instead of nano doesn't mean we should use
17 > it. There are many aspects of the release where somebody thinks that
18 > *their* preference is the correct one. It usually isn't :P
19 >
20 Also, this raises the editor debate that will most likely end in a
21 "religious" war between vi(m) and emacs.
22
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