[ale] Gentoo.....where did vi go.....

[Joe]

James Sumners <james at sumners.ath.cx> writes:

> the fact that emerging vim required all of X is one of the things i did not like
> about Gentoo. it is absolutely _not_ necessary to build gvim. whomever setup
> that package should be shot IMHO.

I strongly suspect that this is a user-configurable thing, but
I'm not enough of a Gentoo person to know how to do it. Perhaps
removing "X" from the USE= line in /etc/make.profile/make.defaults
would do it? And there must be some way to do the equivalent in
a package-specific manner.

Cheers,

-- Joe Knapka

> On 03 Feb 2003 09:04:01 -0700
> Joe <jknapka at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > msmith at mikeandmel.com writes:
> > 
> > > I was installing Gentoo this weekend and I got to the
> > > point where I edit the /etc/fstab file and wham......
> > > vi is no longer on my path.  I looked in the usual RH
> > > places /bin , /sbin , /usr/bin , /usr/sbin ,
> > > /usr/local/bin /opt/bin , and /usr/local/sbin.  Where
> > > the heck is vi on Gentoo?
> > 
> > By default, it's nowhere; use "nano", which is utterly trivial to
> > use. "nano /etc/fstab" should work. "^O" to save the file, IIRC.  And
> > then "emerge vi[m|le]". Note that emerging "vim" will also suck down
> > ALL OF XFree86, because of vim's X extensions.  "emerge vile" to get a
> > nice, small, CLI vi.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- Joe Knapka
> 
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