Package: vim-tiny Version: 7.2.148-2 Severity: wishlist User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic
Hi, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim/+bug/372364 requests that vim-tiny be available on the root filesystem as a rescue utility. I have some sympathy with this: a separate /usr is more likely to be used by at least moderately experienced users rather than complete novices, and if /usr fails to mount they may well be more comfortable with vi than nano. I'm aware that alternatives handling is rather delicate, though, especially in Debian where the vim-tiny package also needs to support the Hurd with /usr symlinked to /, so I thought I'd just pass this on to you as a wishlist request. We probably can't assume either that /bin is in front of /usr/bin on $PATH or the other way round, so some care would be needed. What if vim is installed so /usr/bin/vi is a symlink to /usr/bin/vim.basic, which isn't on /? We wouldn't want /bin/vi to be vim.tiny despite that, since that could produce inconsistent results when typing 'vi' in a normal environment. Maybe a sensible approach would be to move vim.tiny to /bin, but not worry about providing a /bin/vi symlink - people can just type vim.tiny if they're in a recovery situation. In a recovery situation, it probably doesn't matter much that /usr/share/vim/ (including /usr/share/vim/vimrc.tiny) would be unavailable. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
