Bug#222138: [RFC] new vim-tiny

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:43:27PM -0500, Len Sorensen wrote:
> Like Joey I think we would mainly miss syntax highlighting, although I
> doubt most of our customers would care.  Only a few use the command line

BTW, the choice of not depending on vim-runtime is quite arbitrary. An
alternative way is to split the vim-runtime in two packages one on which
vim-tiny and the other variants depend on and another on which only the
other variants depend on. I started with the described choice for
simplicity, but if you need you can:
- create a custom stripped version of the vim-runtime package
- install part of the runtime both in vim-runtime and in vim-tiny
  installing the part included in vim-tiny in /usr/share/vim/vim-tiny/
  having that directory appearing in vim's runtimepath after the default
  one. That way you use a small runtime when vim-tiny is installed and
  the full one when also vim-runtime is.

> > [1] to alleviate the issue, we can think at including some dummy help
> >     files which points out that installing vim-runtime would solve the
> >     problem
> I don't know if it matters, but I suppose it might be nice if a user
> types vim, expects help and gets some useful information about how to
> solve the lack of help.

Indeed, it is already an item of my TODO list.

> Are your vim packages supposed to be 'native' rather than have an
> upstream .orig.tar.gz and diff?  Or is this a build mistake?

It's a mistake, I just put the .orig.tar.gz there in case someone is
interested to build the package from source, but I probably messed up
something.

Cheers.

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