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FS#41221 - [pacdiff] Add vim as opt-depend

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Daniel (weirddan455) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 16:57 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 22:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.1.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

If vim is not installed, the default configuration of pacdiff leaves the user unable to view a .pacnew file. Example output:

==> pacnew file found for /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: (V)iew, (S)kip, (R)emove pacnew, (O)verwrite with pacnew: [v/s/r/o] v
/usr/bin/pacdiff: line 144: vimdiff: command not found
rm: remove regular file ‘/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew’? n

Installing vim provides the vimdiff command and allows pacdiff to function as expected. It seems this fits the bill for a typical opt-depend since pacdiff is non-essential to the functioning of pacman itself but lacking the vim package will nevertheless leave pacdiff broken in its default configuration.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 22:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 22:01 GMT
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34745
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 22:19 GMT
pacdiff provides a helpful message if vim is not installed (at least in pacman-git). So I will not be adding an optdepend.

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