Control: forcemerge 681012 -1 On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:16:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > It would be really useful if vim-tiny was put back to providing a vim > alternative link. The current setup is illogical and confusing (rather > contrary to the changelog entry from 2008 that claimed this state was > made to avoid being confusing).
This isn't going to change. I've explained the reasoning fairly thoroughly in #681012 (which I'm merging this into). > This has been bothering me for years, but I have always just resolved > it by throwing away a bunch of disk space by installing any other vim > package to solve the problem. Then setup an alias or ~/bin/vim instead. vim-tiny has an explicit purpose and that's not going to change. > Clearly its removal has in fact been causing confusion > rather than avoiding it. In the various support channels I'm a part of, I've seen far less confusion about vim-tiny providing vi than the other way around. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
