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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Kamil Górnik wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I suffer lack of vi (vim) on stage3 since ever. It's not a big binary |
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>> and still there are those who prefer vi to nano. |
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>> Every time I install gentoo the first time I need to do after setting |
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>> up the system is emerging vi before emerge -Du world. |
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> We will *never* include vim instead of nano, simple because |
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> *everybody* can use nano, which many people have no fscking clue how |
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> to use vim. I've been a linux user for almost 8 years, and I've never |
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> learned how to use vim. We also will not include *both* packages, |
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> because that would bloat the stages unnecessarily. |
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> Just because you prefer vim instead of nano doesn't mean we should use |
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> it. There are many aspects of the release where somebody thinks that |
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> *their* preference is the correct one. It usually isn't :P |
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I've heard this numerous times. And Andrew is correct in that stage 3 |
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should not ever include vim. That said, how about a static version of |
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vim that could hang out somewhere and be brought down and used quite |
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easily. I'll leave it to ya'll to figure that one out. |
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