Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:06:27 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tony Maserati <abletony84@gmail.com> Cc: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, questions@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11 Message-ID: <xeiak4id6sbw.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_c0j9fbp-YMYx4mfdWsc4w3Zx5mgWB09mHbHC@mail.gmail.com> (Tony Maserati's message of "Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 %2B0100") References: <AANLkTin_c0j9fbp-YMYx4mfdWsc4w3Zx5mgWB09mHbHC@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati <abletony84@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just curious - what's the point of including X11 as a dependency > to vim? And then making a vim-lite port (which you usually discover > after installing X11). How about making it vim and vim-x11 instead? Maybe because gvim is really *much* nicer than plain console-based vim sessions. The vim-lite port exists for those cases when you really want to install just plain good ol' vim without all the bells and whistles. You can also install editors/vim with WITHOUT_X11='true' to avoid the pulling of all this X11 stuff.
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