John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > And I assume, once we have fixed vim everywhere, it will be broken again > at some point due to the fact vim upstream is continuously adding features > which is why it's no longer suitable being an editor to be shipped in a > minimal installation.
And Debian ships vim-tiny, not vim, as part of the minimal installation. That the same source package also builds other versions doesn't really matter for vim-tiny. The only problem you mentioned was vim-tiny (arch: any) depending on vim-common (arch: all) and these sometimes getting out of sync on Debian Ports. I don't think that is a good reason to switch editors and there are other ways to work around that problem. But if we really wanted a minimal editor: `ed` is still there with an Installed-Size: 116 kB and no external dependencies besides libc6. It also works without fancy terminal features. Or have debootstrap not install any editor. But if I remember correctly that idea wasn't popular. Ansgar
