Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat

[Stuart Herbert]

On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:34 am, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> Vim is an essential tool for me, if it wasnt available for use when
> preparing a gentoo installation, i would install from something else
> that does provide it - i feel that strongly about it.

Serious question - what features of vim do you need that are not supplied by 
one of the other vi-like editors?  This would be good to know.

> And we're not talking about a few megabytes here, we're talking about a
> few hundred K's, with USE=minimal my vim binary is just 400k.

What about the contents of /usr/share/vim?  This is where a lot of space is 
taken up.

> im sure there are, but vi != vim.

For basic text editing, vim !== vi, but vim == vi.

Best regards,
Stu
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