Bug#365040: vim should update the vi alternative to use vim rather than nvi

[James Vega]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:37:22PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:42:59PM +0200, Rafael Steiner wrote:
> > Well, vim is not in the base-installation, thats ok and I can understand
> > it. But if the user _has_ to install vim manually he certainly wants to
> > use it as his default vi, so the vim package should set the vi
> > alternative to vim. 
> 
> Currently, nvi uses a priority of 30 for its vi alternative.  I'm not
> sure which other editors provide a vi alternative, but I expect that nvi
> is our main competitor.  What do you think about having vim-tiny also be
> at 31 and bumping the other priorities so vim starts at 40?

I just installed a few editors which provide the vi alternative in a
chroot and it looks like common practice is to have the -tiny variant
still have a lower priority than nvi, but then to have any normal
variants with a higher priority.  Looks like simply bumping vim to 40
would be a good enough solution for this bug, since all the other
non-tiny vim variants already have a priority higher than 30..

James
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GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at jamessan.com>
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