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Date:      Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:52:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031202135106.67274B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031202185133.GD20823@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:52:02PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> writes:
> > > When are we going to replace nvi with vim-without-x11?
> > 
> > Over my dead body.  I consider vim a st****ng pile of s**t.
> 
> I consider nvi a st****ng pile of s**t.  So there!  8-)))))
> 
> Any talk of importing Vim should just stop right here, right now.  The
> license on it is close enough to GPL that even I would strongly block
> its import.

I've been thinking we could solve all this by moving to nvi.ko and vim.ko,
and let the user decide using a boot-time loader tunable.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research




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