Re: [gentoo-dev] install CD bloat

[Eric Olinger <EvvL@RustedHalo.net>]

On 20 Aug 2003 11:51:56 -0400
Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> vim is only available outside of chroot.  It is not in the stages, and
> isn't available while in chroot.  Personally, I HATE nano, but I think
> if we're going to have an editor on the CD by default, we should pick
> one and stick with it rather than trying to meet the needs of every
> user's desire.  After all, what's next?  "I hate nano and vim, someone
> put emacs on the Live CD."
If were really talking about saving space on the livecd we could always replace 
vim with nVi. It has all the basic vi features in a lot smaller package. Plus in
that extra space put a small emacs work-alike like qemacs. I don't use emacs
but I always assumed that since we had Vi on the cd that Emacs was on the
cd as well. It'd be good to have at least the the two most common editors on 
the cd or at least work-alikes.

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