[gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split

[gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split

[Alessandro DE LAURENZIS]

I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very
old thread on the subject:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328

which contains the original communication of the ebuild split and some
discussions and observations that probably are no more applicable.

I'm absolutely convinced that one of the gentoo strengths is the USE
variable handling compile time options, so I do not see any points to
split packages when not absolutely needed.

In case of vim-core/vim/gvim (and vim-qt?), I cannot understand
the reason... Are still there advantages in doing so?

Thanks for your time

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Re: [gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:02:12PM +0100, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS wrote
> I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very
> old thread on the subject:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328
> 
> which contains the original communication of the ebuild split and some
> discussions and observations that probably are no more applicable.
> 
> I'm absolutely convinced that one of the gentoo strengths is the USE
> variable handling compile time options, so I do not see any points to
> split packages when not absolutely needed.
> 
> In case of vim-core/vim/gvim (and vim-qt?), I cannot understand
> the reason... Are still there advantages in doing so?
> 
> Thanks for your time

  While you're at it, can you ***PLEASE*** get rid of the ewarn message

> WARN: postinst
> Note that the English word lists are no longer installed by
> default.

  It's been in there for what seems like forever.  I just checked
/var/log/portage/elog on the PC hooked up to my TV set.  I installed
Gentoo on it June 22nd, 2010.  The message was in there back then.
That's over 3 years!!!  Enough already.  I go through the messages in
/var/portage/elog after every update.  It's annoying to have that same
old message polluting the logs.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications