83941 – vi missing from portage

Bug 83941 - vi missing from portage

Summary: vi missing from portage

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Vim Maintainers

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Duplicates (1):	103125 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2005-03-03 05:32 UTC by Niels Kalle
Modified:	2005-08-20 04:27 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Niels Kalle 2005-03-03 05:32:55 UTC

It seems that the editor vi is missing from portage.
Since Version 2004.3 it is not possible to emerge it anymore.
It is possible to emerge vim or nvi but not vi itself.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install gentoo 2004.3
2. emerge vi
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "vi".

Expected Results:  
it should have been emerged.

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-03-03 05:46:20 UTC

Indeed. It's gone, since it only works properly with termcap-compat, which we're trying to kill on the grounds that it's ancient, buggy, unmaintained, incomplete and only exists for compatability with a few ancient *BSD things.

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-20 04:27:31 UTC

*** Bug 103125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***