Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

В Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:12:46 +0200 Per Jessen пишет:

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Per Jessen wrote:

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I've just done (yet another) minimum install and specifically checked to see that vim was auto-selected for installation. Yet when I booted the system, no vim was installed. Has anyone else seen this?

Ah, found it - I had deselected 'libSM6' which is apparently required by vim. It seems that vim requires libICE6, libSM6 and libXt6 which AFAICT all have to do with X ??

Given that

bor@opensuse:~/src/yast/yast-storage> LC_ALL=C vim -g E25: GUI cannot be used: Not enabled at compile time

that's really good question. Also Mandriva had vim-minimal which was truly bare bone vi without any bells and whistles.

But I would love to know why text mode vim needs X11. Care to open a bug report?

Sure, see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901230 -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.0°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 2014-10-14 11:16, jdd wrote:

Le 14/10/2014 10:09, Per Jessen a écrit :

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I've just done (yet another) minimum install and specifically checked to see that vim was auto-selected for installation. Yet when I booted the system, no vim was installed. Has anyone else seen this?

vim is a large application, usually we found "vi" (ie: busybox, tinyvi;..)

I think that 'joe' is smaller, and is installed by default. It is in the DVD small rescue image, last time I looked, but I haven't checked the minimum pattern. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)