John Plocher wrote:
> Brian Gupta wrote:
>> I will not be replacing the vim binary, or associated links. I will be
>> providing a set of files that will coexist with the files, links and
>> directories provided by SUNWvim. My understanding is that two
>> different SUNW packages can not have conflicting files. If they could,
>> I might have taken a different approach. IE: Provide alternate
>> packages, similar to how the Debian folks do it. vim-tiny, vim,
>> vim-full, such that depending on which package you installed,
>> /usr/bin/vim can have different compile options.
>
> You *could* also extend this case to include redelivering the
> vim package(s), and redesign that area as well if it would result
> in a "better" system. Of course, it also makes things a bit harder,
> so it is entirely your call...
No, please, I like it better the way it is ... this way vim is
separable from the window system and the rest of the GTK libraries.
That potentially helps with those minimization efforts that folks were
talking about.
-- Garrett
>
> -John
