+minimal cripples vim to the point where it's almost unusable yet ships with a whole layer of (more or less) "convenient" stuff in /usr/share/vim/
If you're emerging vim with the minimal use flag set, vim-core isn't pulled in as a dependency. From what I can see, the only files that get installed in that case are /usr/bin/vim, a few symlinks to it, and one bash-completion file.
(In reply to Tim Harder from comment #1) > If you're emerging vim with the minimal use flag set, vim-core isn't pulled > in as a dependency. > > From what I can see, the only files that get installed in that case are > /usr/bin/vim, a few symlinks to it, and one bash-completion file. Jeroen did put the description right. The way I phrased it, it was wrong. Please consider adding "minimal" to vim-core. The fashion in which it sits on app-editors/vim seems somewhat pointless in light of its effects on the actually installed compontents of vim.
(In reply to Cedric from comment #2) > Please consider adding "minimal" to vim-core. The fashion in which it sits > on app-editors/vim seems somewhat pointless in light of its effects on the > actually installed compontents of vim. Adding a minimal use flag to vim-core would mean someone would have to decide which language syntax, filetype plugins, etc are "core" functionality which is highly subjective. I could see adding linguas support for conditionally installing the various alternative language files and keymaps, but I'm really not interested in doing and maintaining that work just to save a bit of space (especially with the current vim build system and file layout). Feel free to attach a patch against the vim eclass with your proposed changes.
The livecd flag was renamed to minimal in >=7.4, this should solve most of your issues. If you want more stuff removed file bugs with patches and we can discuss them.
