On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Valdas Andrulis wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Pixel wrote:
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> > David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > > To sum up, /bin/vi is only pointing to /bin/vim (minimal) if only
> > > vim minimal is installed, else, it's pointing to /usr/bin/vim (enhanced).
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> > pbs:
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> > - /bin/vim not included in vim-minimal
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> That's what I meant in my message.
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> > - people used to call "vim" will get vim-minimal as /bin is usually before
> > /usr/bin in $PATH
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> So it is beter to call vim-minimal /bin/vim-minimal or wathever but not
> /bin/vim. update-alternatives takes care of /bin/vi setting to
> /bin/vim-minimal or /usr/bin/vim.

And at the installation time if user set / and /usr to two
separate partitions vim-minimal should be marked mandatory and
installed in order to retain the purpose of /bin/vi IMHO.

Valdas

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