A Debian package of 5.0 has just been released, something a lot of users were eagerly waiting for. Earlier today I installed it, and was disappointed to discover that GUI support was not enabled, as it had been in the 4.6 Debian package.
I was on the point of submitting a "wishlist" bug report, but then reflected: VIM 5.0 is a program with so many different compile options (including +/- support for emacs tags and Perl and Python syntax) that it is not easy to build a Debian package that meets the needs of all users. Some people want all the GUI and syntax support; others, especially people on slower systems, want a smaller, leaner program. So this leads to a more general question: what's the "Debian philosophy" on packaging a program with so many compile options? Build one package to the least common denominator? or with as many features as possible? Build multiple packages for the same program? Or include multiple versions of the binaries in a single package, and determine from the user during package install which one to copy to /usr/bin? -- David Sewell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "The sleeping are workmen Dep't of Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona | (and fellow-workers) in WWW: http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | what happens in the world." | --Heraclitus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
