From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 11:43:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EEF106566C; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:43:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from abletony84@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DD678FC0C; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywp6 with SMTP id 6so8085572ywp.13 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:43:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=CrNa2S6BMvHwEAHlFyjKc2dpUDMq0sgUq+pFhwSPtRc=; b=SdLyHWV1e+X7A5Dhq0kxgepIDemhHOPK2umnRyinG1O9AEfMErWPgu5Y53ZMmXOWdH XNE+SlVEa8jlJ9109VYxT7hIraOTsj/vcAAjqqChPfq61DymnFc/7XtygbkLaBHN23MP qhwGkb0mNCAvCFQW+BGrOd+3OG6sGYlMPjtQc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=oG8fG4tNbb5NYQKW7zKpPK4c6Y1fvhfxZ/IVqX+S/MTCuiXqL2LE8ElB/59QsEiS1W knn5zrBibf/D020vGRLJhwBC+/fLN/SFgsZfZOqPRWyX9S8baiW5ZWwEWpGgvwFPnRIs /FFfZ+Sk1eMOEkv2wjeZx0oMWaKDw47WyZblg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.98.19 with SMTP id a19mr23664410ybm.28.1294659793099; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:43:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.192.20 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:43:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100 Message-ID: From: Tony Maserati To: Giorgos Keramidas X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:08:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:43:14 -0000 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 > 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. > >