Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 10 16:42:10 UTC 2011


On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500
Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
> <keramida at freebsd.org>wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't really
> > need and I can help you clean up by saving your installed ports as
> > 'binary packages' and re-installing just the bits that you _really_
> > want to have around.  Other than that, I don't know if there's any
> > way to change the status quo of the vim ports to be able to satisfy
> > automatically both types of user needs.
> >
> >
> My not a 'make config' target that asks weather we want vim/gvim/xvim
> (if X isn't installed?)

There's already a slave port


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