From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25172 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Apr 2003 13:51:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4438 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2003 13:51:28 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <20030429130521.GD18711@lucien.dreaming> References: <20030429001443.GA413@time> <20030429011644.GB18711@lucien.dreaming> <20030429033239.GB413@time> <200304290224.53881.novas007@gmx.net> <1051598177.1819.32.camel@bunyip.uwa.edu.au> <20030429130521.GD18711@lucien.dreaming> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Message-Id: <1051623843.24684.29.camel@rattus.Localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 29 Apr 2003 21:44:04 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new local USE var: vim-with-x X-Archives-Salt: c682eeb1-a8e8-4325-8f04-a8fa8ed50471 X-Archives-Hash: 52a9667d946625c6f8505038c25e6d82 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 [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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list