Why does Vim in pkgng depend on X11 and the GTK?

Darren Pilgrim list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Mon Jan 13 01:55:15 UTC 2014


On 1/12/2014 5:07 PM, Matthew Pherigo wrote:
> Apparently, I can compile it without these requirements from the
> ports tree (not to mention that no Linux distro I've used has ever
> required X to be installed with Vim), so the problem isn't inherently
> in Vim.

editors/vim includes gvim, the gtk version of vim.  If you just want the 
command-line vim, install editors/vim-lite.


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