Bug#444009: Vim with language plugins (python, ruby, perl, tcl) requires X11.

Benjamin A'Lee bma at subvert.org.uk
Tue Sep 25 15:27:27 UTC 2007


On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:09:48PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> What I see as feasible would be to have a new variant which is basically
> vim-full but without X11 support, we could call it "vim-nox" (for "no
> X11") following the naming scheme that we can found in other packages.
> That would mean that you will still need to pull in libraries supporting
> the other interpreters you will not use, but diminish the need of X11
> libraries which I bet is the largest slice of the issue.
> 
> What do you think?
> Comments from the other maintainers?

This would be fine, as far as I'm concerned. libperl and tcl are fairly
small, and python tends to get installed anyway; as long as X11/GTK aren't
required.

Thanks,

-- 
Benjamin A'Lee <bma at subvert.org.uk>
http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/
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