I understand that it should be possible to install just the gvim and vim-common ebuilds and still have the full functionality of vim. However, the vim eclass does not install the (vimdiff rvim ex view rview) symlinks in /usr/bin when the package is gvim, only when the package is vim. I believe that these symlinks should be installed by vim.eclass regardless of whether the package name is vim or gvim.
Thanks, fixed in vim.eclass: Index: vim.eclass =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/eclass/vim.eclass,v retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -b -B -r1.51 vim.eclass --- vim.eclass 21 Mar 2004 05:19:51 -0000 1.51 +++ vim.eclass 7 Apr 2004 22:23:55 -0000 @@ -312,6 +312,37 @@ fi } +# Make convenience symlinks, hopefully without stepping on toes. Some +# of these links are "owned" by the vim ebuild when it is installed, +# but they might be good for gvim as well (see bug 16852) +update_vim_symlinks() { + local f syms="vi vimdiff rvim ex view rview" + + # Make or remove convenience symlink, vim -> gvim + if [[ -f /usr/bin/gvim ]]; then + ln -s gvim /usr/bin/vim 2>/dev/null + elif [[ -L /usr/bin/vim && ! -f /usr/bin/vim ]]; then + rm /usr/bin/vim + fi + + # Make or remove convenience symlinks to vim + if [[ -f /usr/bin/vim ]]; then + for f in ${syms}; do + ln -s vim /usr/bin/${f} 2>/dev/null + done + else + for f in ${syms}; do + if [[ -L /usr/bin/${f} && ! -f /usr/bin/${f} ]]; then + rm -f /usr/bin/${f} + fi + done + fi + + # This will still break if you merge then remove the vi package, + # but there's only so much you can do, eh? Unfortunately we don't + # have triggers like are done in rpm-land. +} + pkg_postinst() { # Update documentation tags (from vim-doc.eclass) update_vim_helptags @@ -342,12 +373,14 @@ ewarn fi - # Make convenience symlinks, hopefully without stepping on toes - [ -f /usr/bin/gvim ] && ln -s gvim /usr/bin/vim 2>/dev/null - [ -f /usr/bin/vim ] && ln -s vim /usr/bin/vi 2>/dev/null + # Make convenience symlinks + update_vim_symlinks } pkg_postrm() { # Update documentation tags (from vim-doc.eclass) update_vim_helptags + + # Make convenience symlinks + update_vim_symlinks }
