On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:43:13 +0100, Tony Maserati <ableton...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr> >wrote: >>On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati <ableton...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. > > 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.
The tricky bit is that there's no gvim port. There are two choices one can make when porting software like this: * Add a default port that installs the 'full experience', and a second meta-port that has options suitable for minimalists. * Add a default port that is minimal, and a meta-port that can pull in all the necessary bits for the full-blown user experience. I agree that it's confusing to remember which port has chosen which option, but there isn't much a porter (e.g. obrien in this case) can do to satisfy *both* groups of users. I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't really need and I can help you clean up by saving your installed ports as 'binary packages' and re-installing just the bits that you _really_ want to have around. Other than that, I don't know if there's any way to change the status quo of the vim ports to be able to satisfy automatically both types of user needs. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"