Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Strange - plenty!  vim is a console program and gvim and kvim are X
based - so until I had a failure and needed a pure console vim, I didnt
know this would occur.  True you can compile vim with X hooks, but why
in a console based program?, when it means that on a system that has
failed i.e., see how many (including me!) people have had X failures
when installing xfree-4.3.  vim is my fallback editor for when gvim isnt
available, and all of a sudden, it fails right when I need it most!

Perhaps we need a 4th package to keep the frustrated X types happy -
vim-with-x, rather than a USE variable which is just not up to this
task.  Then everyone can install the vim that suits them, e.g., vim,
xvim, kvim and gvim.

BillK


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 21:05, Björn Lindström wrote:
> Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> [20030429 08:36]:
> > Because if you build vim with X in your use flags and you try and run
> > "vim" from a non-X console or a console ssh session it wont run!  I
> > have had to stuff around compiling vim with USE="-X" with two machines
> > now so I could fix other problems from a console remote login.
> 
> That's easy to fix. Just let "emerge vim" with USE=X install
> /usr/bin/vim as a text mode vim _and_ /usr/bin/(g|k)vim as the GUI
> version.
> 
> > vim should default to -X unless overidden specifically and locally.
> > Note that you do want X support for most other apps though, so
> > honouring a global USE is not a good idea for vim..
> 
> I still think this is ugly. If you asked for X support, you get it.
> What's so strange about that?
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>


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