Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100 From: Tony Maserati <abletony84@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 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: <AANLkTimPD7Msjc6B-r=YEK26nJQ8nq=5sGUoaS-%2BhJu_@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <xeiak4id6sbw.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <AANLkTin_c0j9fbp-YMYx4mfdWsc4w3Zx5mgWB09mHbHC@mail.gmail.com> <xeiak4id6sbw.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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I hear that - but if I want gvim I'll install gvim. What it's doing here is installing something I didn't ask for, well actually, it's fooling me into giving me something I don't need. Thanks. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas < keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > 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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