On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:50 AM Ansgar <ans...@43-1.org> wrote: > 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.
just my 5 cents: Any alternative to vi(m), which does not build, is a good from system administrator view. Talking about installer, nano/busybox/nvi all good alternatives. Thanks.
