From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 13:30:35 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7F4106566C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:30:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from abandon.every.hope@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023C18FC1C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywp6 with SMTP id 6so8118279ywp.13 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:30:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UIlEBjK/arBdBFlTppnHOEAu5Q2w4RxR/O//FZpRGSU=; b=wNi4AzNG4IJTh3aXfOJYwrOwfRrBLww1e8HAFU/OygeLMo+WqIxDgiCdF0UAhrqiQA GG/GsLtVB60KFHjY5DKNLMrkq1zKXO0fjYZ/5IKL/GVzXH9N1U2vwBdlfXBEUVh85sK4 S658wvJ9gc+xaPt8gMndylmUr6Te+9cKwu8TM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FAvHlopCyPJc9rG0zMEScxIiN3vfcsduI7ltd4LBioowTVlX0NAF8SGjDzodBdnJNs epLK3qyx+MYcgtg70l/hysjVO+/THAsxaWLCQ+6Dw/3cX5R0PJU3t1EbjeGYwF9Vzac+ rfRoTnsN8dac7iYO0/IFXdxTZE7pU4A8DXWYs= Received: by 10.90.32.16 with SMTP id f16mr6058838agf.202.1294664562685; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:02:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.100.91.28] ([206.74.148.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 2sm37552655anw.18.2011.01.10.05.02.41 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:02:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D2B036B.40503@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:02:35 -0500 From: Ed Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:30:35 -0000 This seems bizarre. Logically, it would seem better to do a split like vim (bare vim - what you would expect) and xvim (vim with X11) similar to how emacs does emacs/xemacs. On 1/10/2011 4:06 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 22:19:02 +0100, Tony Maserati wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm just curious - what's the point of including X11 as a dependency >> to vim? And then making a vim-lite port (which you usually discover >> after installing X11). How about making it vim and vim-x11 instead? > Maybe because gvim is really *much* nicer than plain console-based vim > sessions. > > The vim-lite port exists for those cases when you really want to install > just plain good ol' vim without all the bells and whistles. You can also > install editors/vim with WITHOUT_X11='true' to avoid the pulling of all > this X11 stuff. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"