Joachim Frieben (joachim frieben googlemail com) said: > vim-X11 has a lot more dependencies than vim-enhanced, in particular on > GNOME.
vim-X11 has no gnome dependencies.
GTK != GNOME, just as QT != KDE.
Bill
A GNOME build is actually possible among many others, but in the present case, you're absolutely right: the current build definitely chooses the GTK frontend, not the GNOME one. The resulting dependencies are thus only slightly increased with respect to vim-enhanced.