646524 – app-editors/gvim doesn't install /usr/bin/vim symlink

Bug 646524 - app-editors/gvim doesn't install /usr/bin/vim symlink

Summary: app-editors/gvim doesn't install /usr/bin/vim symlink

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Vim Maintainers

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Keywords:	PATCH

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Reported:	2018-02-03 22:06 UTC by Andrew
Modified:	2018-09-20 04:41 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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A patch that fixes the problem for 8.0.1298 (gvim-8.0.1298.ebuild.diff,35 bytes, patch) 2018-02-03 22:06 UTC, Andrew	Details \| Diff
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Description Andrew 2018-02-03 22:06:32 UTC

Created attachment 517700 [details, diff]
A patch that fixes the problem for 8.0.1298

gvim should to work as a command line vim too which means /usr/bin/vim symlink should be installed (/usr/bin/vi is handled by eselect and is working as expected). Latest stable version of the ebuild (8.0.1298) doesn't install the symlink. Accordingly to the wiki[1] this is supposed to work, maybe it was changed accidentally.

1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Vim#Gvim

Comment 1 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2018-09-20 04:41:17 UTC

This would collide with app-editors/vim and doesn't make sense to do. If you want vim available just install it in addition to gvim.