Re: RFC: Replacing vim-tiny with nano in essential packages
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:50:01PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
I'd disagree. vi is very newbie unfriendly. OTOH I expect people that
know how to navigate vi to be able to `apt install vi` without any problem.
*t
My initial feeling was similar, but we're talking about systems that
only have minbase/priority Essential packages and nothing else. Newbies
are not going to be using such systems. And if there's a choice between
a not-small (~2MiB) friendly editor in the minimal images, OR a vi
implementation, the latter is more important IMHO, and comes with the
advantage of also being the smaller choice. One circumstance that
non-newbies might be interacting with a minbase system includes odd
environments where "apt install *" is not an option.
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