Ansgar dijo [Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:49:49AM +0100]: > And Debian ships vim-tiny, not vim, as part of the minimal > installation. That the same source package also builds other versions > doesn't really matter for vim-tiny. > > The only problem you mentioned was vim-tiny (arch: any) depending on > vim-common (arch: all) and these sometimes getting out of sync on Debian > Ports. I don't think that is a good reason to switch editors and there > are other ways to work around that problem.
Agree. > But if we really wanted a minimal editor: `ed` is still there with an > Installed-Size: 116 kB and no external dependencies besides libc6. It > also works without fancy terminal features. Well, yes. But while mostly everybody who reads this will be moderately proficient with the basic subset of vi, I don't know anybody who'd know how to drive ed (I have done it, but I surely don't remember how to). > Or have debootstrap not install any editor. But if I remember correctly > that idea wasn't popular. I agree with those that would oppose. Having an editor handy is core to be able to get a Unix system out of many unexpected situations. Having an Unix system without an editor is IMO having a broken system. Could make sense for embedded targets... but nothing else.