On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:59 -0500, kashani wrote:
> Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after
> > my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like
> > there is no gentoo-dev-sources moved to gentoo-sources, but vi is also
> > missing!
> > Is this compleet gone? or also moved, can someone point me in the good
> > direction.
> > I love the good old vi
> 
> IIRC it used to be in portage as of around of a year ago. You might be 
> able to track down an ebuild of it in the old ebuilds. I'd have been 
> able to tell you for sure but I wiped it off my last machine last month 
> when I enforced the vim with color syntax standardization.
> 
> Once you get used to syntax highlighting you can never go back. Plus 
> there is nothing like half your named.conf shifting to red to let you 
> know you typo'ed a } somewhere.


well, its sorta orphaned due to being a pain to maintain
( terminfo /curses  dependencies)  there are still ebuilds, you can look
in the viewcvs to recover the old ones I believe.

I added it mostly out of nostalgia back when Gentoo was young, since
then it became more of a burden to maintain, so it dropped out of the
tree.

//Spider

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