vim and vim-tiny default features

[Илиа Гвилава]

Dear maintainer,

recently I've discovered that vim-tiny and even vim (Huge version without
GUI) are compiled without 'clipboard' and 'xterm_clipboard' features. I
wonder if there is some rationale behind this decision? Let me please
explain my point. While in general on a desktop system or server with
constant internet connection it's not a problem to obtain desired
functionality through installing more 'stuffed' package or even build
things from source code exactly as you want them to be, in some cases (not
so rare in fact) e.g. linux boxes, this can be very painful. And since a
lot of such 'tiny' systems are build on a Debian basis and include vim-tiny
(which is good, we expect every *nix device to have vi* right out of a box)
it's seems to be an attractive option to have clipboard features enabled by
default. Same concerns about VPS. In our days VPS deploys in less then a
minute, then one spends 30 seconds to replace vim-tiny with vim and...
still no system-wide clipboard.
So I ask you to please consider enabling clipboard features by default at
least for vim (huge w/o GUI), ideally for vim-tiny too.

Sincerely,
Ilia

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P.S. as far as I'm new to Open Source and Debian community in particular,
please let me know if this letter was addressed to a wrong mailing list
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