FS#44684 - [vi] Add vi package to extra, community or AUR

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Allen Li (darkfeline) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:09 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

vi was dropped from core recently because the devs felt like an extra few MB is healthy, yet they did not bother to then move the package to either extra, community or even the AUR, because clearly there does not exist a single Arch user that uses vi.

It would be rather nice if the old vi package was moved to extra, community, or even the AUR.
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:17 GMT
It's being replaced by vim-minimal. There are already AUR packages with obsolete variants of vi like the heimloom ex-vi.
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:20 GMT
There's an nvi-unicode package too.
Comment by Allen Li (darkfeline) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:21 GMT
I'm not looking for alternatives, I'm looking for the PKGBUILD for the original vi package. Put it in the AUR, even. Just don't delete it and assume no one else needs it.
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:28 GMT
It's still in the VCS history if you really want it.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/?id=bd8b85c57d8d5fba1b9356f19a9f9460e06b49f2
Comment by Allen Li (darkfeline) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:35 GMT
@Daniel Thanks. I wish the devs would maintain a policy of moving packages to the AUR instead of just dropping them outright. It's been done before, and I'm sure users appreciate it.
Comment by Daniel Micay (thestinger) - Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 20:39 GMT
That's generally done but this package was likely seen as useless. The heirloom project mostly exists for the sake of nostalgia as there are less buggy, more capable modern implementations of the programs with the same interface.

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