Bug#280934: overwrites /usr/bin/vim

Norbert Tretkowski Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de>, 280934@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:12:00 +0100


severity 280934 wishlist
thanks

* Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> It should *NOT* overwrite /usr/bin/vim

It's part of the package, of course it gets overwritten.

> but install to say /usr/bin/vim-gtk and let the user manually add
> diversions/ update-alternatives as users might want to use a plain
> fast vim for normal shell usage and gvim on the desktop.

Using alternatives instead of diversions is one of my post-sarge todo
items.

Norbert