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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: Ewan Mac Mahon <ecm103@×××××××.uk>
Cc: gentoo-user List <gentoo-user@g.o>, gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] splitted ebuilds for vim and gvim
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:15:20
Message-Id: 1032045312.32667.2.camel@rattus.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] splitted ebuilds for vim and gvim by Ewan Mac Mahon
1 As well as now there are all these "orphan" installations of vim that
2 will never be upgraded when "emerge -u world": emerge really needs a
3 more graceful way of handling this - perhaps a flag saying "fix me" that
4 is checked when doing a "world"?
5
6 BillK
7
8 On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 22:10, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
9 > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
10 >
11 > > Hi everyone,
12 > >
13 > > I just commited seperate ebuilds for gvim and vim.
14 > >
15 >
16 > I seem to be a lone dissenting voice here, so I'm proably missing
17 > something, but is this really a good idea? I've always regarded the
18 > split packaging of vim in other distros as an unfortunate consequence of
19 > their not being able to handle compile time options. Since one of gentoos
20 > strengths is that it can this seems an odd decision - what's the advantage
21 > over using the X and gtk USE settings like before?
22 >
23 > Ewan
24 >
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