Following the Gentoo install guide, when you get to the section on installing a cron agent, if you happen to pick fcron, your in for a bunch of extra packages you probably don't want. Since vim is a required dependancy, and vim grabs X because of the default USE settings, and X grabs a bunch of other things, and poof this fcron build is pretty heavy.. With default use flags, I get : opengl-update xfree-4.2 gpm-1.2 intltool-0.22 gtk+-1.2.10 cscope-15.3 vim-6.1 mailbase-0.00 ssmtp-2.38.14 fcron-2.0.0-r1 Poor newbie doing his first install is going to be waiting a long time for this fcron package to build :) Previous bug on fcron suggests killing vim and using nano, but doesn't mention the critical effect of vim req. on a fresh install.
the default USE variable is setup to install X and stuff, so they would have installed those packages anyways ;)
on the other hand this is such a recurring issue, that we might benefit by thinning vim out -- may be vim and gvim should be separate ebuilds? I dunno. Ryan, thoughts?
It is actually not a bad idea. I'll look into it.
After thinking on this for awhile I was thinking that having two ebuilds would be sort of pointless. We have USE variables for specifically this reason to enable and disable compile options. Granted, some people may only want the console version, they could check the mailing lists, the forums, or the ebuild itself to figure which flags need to be disabled. What is everyone else's thoughts?
Well even if you take "X" out of the equation, there is still a mess of baggage that comes with VIM.. Fcron only needs a very simple editor, and Gentoo supplies nano.. A VIM use variable perhaps ? I don't use vim, don't need vim, and don't want vim. I have to "fix" the fcron ebuild to make it so.. -Richard C vivivi.. the editor of beast..
Maybe a better idea would be to remove the vim dependency from fcron and add app-editors/vi ???
This is linked to bug 4242... But fcron should not depend on "vim" but.. on any text editor.. nano should do the job.... or nvi or any other editor... Editors should provide a virtual/editor that could be required (like debian does)
How about if I change the ebuild to not point to vim, but rather ${EDITOR} It is set in /etc/profile
comments?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4242 ***
