[Fedora-packaging] Should vim-X11 conflict with vim-enhanced ?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Tue Jan 15 13:57:15 UTC 2008


On Tue January 15 2008, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue January 15 2008, Karsten Hopp wrote:
> > I agree with the /usr/bin/vim stuff, but I think a better solution would
> > be to add a conflict between vim-X11 and vim-enhanced. vim-enhanced is
> > only of use on systems without X11/gtk. On all other systems vim-X11 can
> > provide the same (and more) functionality as vim-enhanced.
>
> Ah, the only possible problem I can think of would be that an "update" from
> vim-enhanced to vim-X11 may not be possible. It should be possbile to do

Using alternatives would make it easier for users in another case, too. When 
someone wants to remove X11 from a default Fedora install ans still keep his 
favourite editor. Then one could install both vim-X11 and vim-enhanced and 
after removing X11, vim-enhanced would be still there.

Regards,
Till
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