| Summary: | Wish: Have vim install as a system editor and not install in /usr | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Richard Fujimoto <rfujimoto> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Vim Maintainers <vim> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
This isn't really possible, since we'd need to have a /share/vim* for the runtime files. If you need a small system editor, there's always sys-apps/ed... |
If it's possible, I would like to suggest that the vim.eclass installs the vim binary and all necessary files in /bin not in /usr/bin. Since /usr is on a seperate partition for me, and I had already uninstalled nano, I was without an editor during a failed boot up. I had to cat,grep,sed a file to edit it. Perhaps a local use flag for vim that when enabled built vim as a system editor "BINDIR=/bin" and when disabled, "BINDIR=/usr/bin" ? I `ldd` the /usr/bin/vim executable and it output this: ldd /usr/bin/vim linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4002c000) libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x4006d000) libperl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libperl.so.1 (0x40073000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40178000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4017b000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x4028f000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x402a0000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x402c2000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x402c5000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x402d9000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: