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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2019 07:23:40 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r491810 - in head/editors/vim: . files
Message-ID:  <CAP7rwcgUVOZBomUg=aiQMLRJB3_c1hoGjMOvk=9i-ogpFH=DTg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190201141856.GB9358@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 7:18 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:02:44AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > ...
> > Perhaps I mischaracterized the situation; it is definitely correct to
> > say that the discussion on freebsd-ports@ revealed nearly unanimous
> > agreement that people would prefer GTK3 be the default.
>
> This saddens me a lot, in this case. :-(  There's nothing broken with
> Gtk+2 that would require a "fix" such as Gtk+3.  Is there any reason as
> to why switch at all, except higher version number?

The discussion on freebsd-ports@ revealed nearly unanimous agreement
that people would prefer GTK3 be the default.

Personally I think it's absurd that vim, a console app, ship with
*any* GUI by default. I would far rather have seen vim-gui be a
separate package.

# Adam


-- 
Adam Weinberger
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https://www.adamw.org



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