On Aug 02 2021, 11:51 UTC, Adam Weinberger <ad...@adamw.org> wrote:
Hello, ports users,
I’ve never liked that the default vim package has a huge number of
dependencies. GTK3 is a beast of a dependency, carrying dozens of
packages with it. I would like to reduce this, but I want to gain
insight from you all first.
My thought is to flavorize the port and make separate packages for each
of the GUI toolkits: -console (TUI-only), -gtk3, -gtk2, -x11, -motif,
etc. I would like to make -console the default, meaning that the
DEFAULT vim port is console-only.
This would be disruptive: the default package would no longer come with
gvim!
My question is: how disruptive would this be for you? Would requiring
people to install vim-gtk3 rather than vim be unduly burdensome? Would
it be better to maintain the status quo? I’m really interested in your
insight here.
I'd love a console-only vim by default!
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Pietro Cerutti
