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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] splitted ebuilds for vim and gvim
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 05:20:01
Message-Id: 200209151248.09195.danarmak@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] splitted ebuilds for vim and gvim by Ewan Mac Mahon
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4 On Saturday 14 September 2002 17:10, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
5 > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
6 > > Hi everyone,
7 > >
8 > > I just commited seperate ebuilds for gvim and vim.
9 >
10 > I seem to be a lone dissenting voice here, so I'm proably missing
11 > something, but is this really a good idea? I've always regarded the
12 > split packaging of vim in other distros as an unfortunate consequence of
13 > their not being able to handle compile time options. Since one of gentoos
14 > strengths is that it can this seems an odd decision - what's the advantage
15 > over using the X and gtk USE settings like before?
16
17 One advantage is that another ebuild can depend on kvim or gvim (fex. kvimpart
18 needs either of these).
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21 Dan Armak
22 Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
23 Matan, Israel
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